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Self-Actualization in the Protagonist of
Maya Angelou’s Memoir:
A Humanistic Psychological Approach

B. Geetha, Ph.D. Scholar and Dr. K. Maheshwari


Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gather_Together_in_My_Name

Abstract

Literature is a reflection of the daily life of human beings. It's a medium for a human to know about the people, society, and problems in life by authors’ imagination. In some genre authors are writing their own lives and their real-life experiences that are called autobiographical narrative. In every story, the character is important. That story suppose to be movie, novel, drama or anything the people who watching or reading. The people are first observing the character only, after the end of the story impact of the character lives in everyone’s heart. Something people should be observed, learned, compared, and experienced the character. To understand and examine the character in literature, the science psychology is needed. The focus of the study is to highlights how the main character achieve goals and find own potentials to reach self -actualization theory by Abraham Maslow. The present study analyses the self- actualization in the protagonist of Maya Angelou’s Memoir. It also evaluates the self –actualization characteristics in the protagonist Maya Angelou from Gather together in My Name.

Keywords: Maya Angelou, character, psychology, self-actualization, humanistic psychology, the autobiographical novel

Introduction

The literary works described the correlation between literature and psychology. The literary works contains character study, the inner thought of individuals and expression of their moods which brought the readers into psychological dimension of human reality. In psychology, the most famous writers are Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Erik Erikson and Abraham Maslow. Maslow became a leader in humanistic psychology. Maslow's humanistic psychology is focusing on the hierarchy theory of motivation to realize one's latent potentials, that hierarchy needs are physiological needs, safety, and security needs, belongings and love needs, self-esteem needs and self-actualization needs. The highest and last need is self-actualization. This study exhibits how the Black woman is self-actualized and overcome all sort of problems, recognizing and realizing her inner potential that achieves the self-actualization. This paper also analyses the Black woman’s autobiographical fiction that was Maya Angelou’s second volume Gather together in my name. It describes Maya’s struggles and survival to get a good life by actualizing her potential. This paper shows self- actualizing person’s characteristics and proves Maya is a self-actualizing person and finds the aspect of the characteristics in Maslow’s perspective.

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B. Geetha, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English
Sri GVG Visalakshi Arts and Science College for Women, Udumalpet
geethurbp@gmail.com

Dr. K. Maheshwari
Associate Professor, (Retired)
Department of English
Sri GVG Visalakshi Arts and Science College for Women, Udumalpet
Krishnan.maheswari88@gmail.com

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