Volume : 3, Issue : 1, January - 2014

Racial Discrimination and Male Psyche in Maya Angelou�s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Dr. Adi Ramesh Babu

Abstract :

Maya Angelou is an African American writer, actress, and poet. Her works focus on the state of women’s lives in a male dominated society. Her first work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings deals with the problems of Black American women in the years following the civil rights movement, a celeation of Black motherhood; a critique of racism, a quest for independence and personal dignity. The article focuses on the racial discrimination and male psyche described in the novel.