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Synopsis. Genre. Style. Themes. Race. Journey. Writing. Motherhood. Critical reception and sales. Notes. Citations. Works cited. The Heart of a Woman (1981) is an autobiography by American writer Maya Angelou. The book is the fourth installment in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies.
- Maya Angelou
- 336 pp (hardcover 1st edition)
- 1981
- 1981
‘ The Heart of a Woman ‘ by Georgia Douglas Johnson describes the freedom for which women yearn and the shelters in which they are imprisoned. The poem begins with the speaker describing how at dawn a woman’s heart is able to fly forth from her home like a “lone bird.”
- Female
- October 9, 1995
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam. In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home. The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars. While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
1 gen 2001 · Filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous characters, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou's eloquent prose her fondest dreams, deepest disappointments, and her dramatically tender relationship with her rebellious teenage son.
- (23,7K)
- Hardcover
The Heart of a Woman is the fourth in a series of five autobiographical texts that relate the events of Angelou's life from her infancy to her experiences in Africa.
16 lug 2022 · The Heart of a Woman is the fourth volume of Maya Angelou’s autobiography. She is now clearly embarked on one of the more significant and important personal narratives of our time. In The Heart of a Woman she leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York.
Filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous characters, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou’s eloquent prose — her fondest dreams, deepest disappointments, and her dramatically tender relationship with her rebellious teenage son.
