In this, the celebrated, bestselling first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. As a black woman, Maya Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, ...
In this, the celebrated, bestselling first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. As a black woman, Maya Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope and joy, celebration and achievement; loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.
1 有用 潇洒小姐Molly 2016-11-28 16:51:30
2016.11.20-2016.11.28 还需修炼才能真正读懂原版书。目前这个阶段还在struggle是否正确理解了事情的发展,还未能感受语言之美。即使这样,maya的这本自传读来还是能感受到作为黑人,作为女性,所受到的一切不公平。这本书让我觉得,写自传是一件极苦的差事,不仅需要真正正视自己的过去,更是要揭开伤疤腕出骨肉来。需重读。