Strenuous Motherhood: A Study of Maya Angelou’s Autobiographies

Black Women Autobiographies were expanded in the early 1960’s as a subgenre of Black Autobiography. The Civil Rights Movement and Woman’s Movement emerged in 1960’s also accelerated the black woman’s activism. The black women having the opportunity to dispose of their prejudiced image could express themselves by the help of autobiography. African American mother can be seen from numerous aspects, often contradictory points of view. She is a woman, who could be analyzed on the basis of psychology or gender studies; she is a feminist, a Civil Rights fighter or an artiste. Every black mother has a lot of faces and layers; and she has to play each and every legitimate role. To draw an explicit picture of an African American mother, one has to take into account all the hardships and sufferings she, her mothers and grandmothers were forced to face. Maya Angelou is a significant writer who has given works in Black American Women Autobiography. Angelou mirrors the lives of black women taking into consideration of her own life. Black mother plays an integrating role in her serious of autobiography.