Discussion: Literature and Language of Maya Angelou

Discussion: Literature and Language.
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Maya Angelou was a poet from the American origin, an artiste singer, a memoirist and a rights activist. She is best known for her bestseller nonfiction literature history known as “still I arise” ADDIN CSL_CITATION {"citationItems":[{"id":"ITEM-1","itemData":{"ISSN":"2354 - 3523","abstract":"The oral tradition forms part of the aesthetic pillars of African-American literature and the study of its presence in African-American literary works deserves more attention. This article shows how African-American creative artists have used their oral tradition, more specifically music, as an index to construct narrative contents, structure and decorate them, thus conferring them beauty, originality and complexity. It focuses on the deployment of the Jazz, the Blues and the slave secular and civil war songs in texts by Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker and Toni Morrison.","author":[{"dropping-particle":"","family":"Dieng","given":"Babacar","non-dropping-particle":"","parse-names":false,"suffix":""}],"container-title":"Covenant Journal of Language Studies","id":"ITEM-1","issue":"2","issued":{"date-parts":[["2018","12","14"]]},"title":"The Oral Tradition as Index: The Leitmotif of Music in the African-American Literary Imagination","type":"article-journal","volume":"6"},"uris":["/documents/?uuid=7261baab-c1c5-3f16-99a1-9697ccaa3757"]}],"mendeley":{"formattedCitation":"(Dieng, 2018)","plainTextFormattedCitation":"(Dieng, 2018)","previouslyFormattedCitation":"(Dieng, 2018)"},"properties":{"noteIndex":0},"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"}(Dieng, 2018), which is a famous awakening poem about the liberation of the Africans and their capability to avoid neocolonialism.
In the early ages, the influence of the spirituals on the local made the enslaved Africans be forbidden from speaking their local languages and were majorly converted to ChristianityADDIN CSL_CITATION {"citationItems":[{"id":"ITEM-1","itemData":{"DOI":"10.1177/0027432118767819","ISSN":"0027-4321","author":[{"dropping-particle":"","family":"Bell","given":"Danna","non-dropping-particle":"","parse-names":false,"suffix":""}],"container-title":"Music Educators Journal","id":"ITEM-1","issue":"4","issued":{"date-parts":[["2018","6","6"]]},"page":"9-11","publisher":"SAGE Publications","title":"Link to the Library of Congress: Harry T. Burleigh—The Man Who Brought African-American Spirituals to the Classical Stage","type":"article-journal","volume":"104"},"uris":["/documents/?uuid=c29a82f9-eac5-34a3-a590-4e90d3faa7dd"]}],"mendeley":{"formattedCitation":"(Bell, 2018)","plainTextFormattedCitation":"(Bell, 2018)","previouslyFormattedCitation":"(Bell, 2018)"},"properties":{"noteIndex":0},"schema":"ht...