LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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N. Sathiya, M.A., B. Ed., Ph.D. Research Scholar

Issues in African American Literature

African American literature is famous black authors known for many talented writers such as Toni Morrison, Ernest J. Gaines, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou and walker Mosley, and they are ranked along with the top writers in the United States. Some of the themes and issues explored in African- American literature are the depiction of experiences of marginalized women. They also point to the role of African-American women within the larger American society, culture, racism, slavery, and inequality. Maya Angelou and Her Works

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was born on April 14, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, growing up in rural Stamps, Arkansas, with her brother, Bailey. She lived with her religious grandmother, who owned a General Store. Angelou has been an inexhaustible author for decades. She began her literary career as a poet, she is well known for her five autobiographical works, which depicts sequential periods of her life. The life experiences of the richly talented Maya Angelou are the cornerstone of her stories. Her stories trace the foundations of her identity as a twentieth-century Black American woman.

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