Maya Angelou: A Brief Biography The daughter of Vivian Baxter and Bailey Jordan, Maya Angelou (née Marguerite Annie Johnson) was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4th, 1928. Angelou had a modest, comfortable upbringing and she was very close to her older brother, Bailey (who nicknamed her Maya,) and her grandmother, Annie (whom she lived with for many years after her parents divorced in 1931) (Smelstor and Hanford Bruce). However, her formative years weren’t without hardship: after moving back
Prize for drama for her play “Topdog / Underdog”. Susan-Lori Parks’s undeniable faith is her main driving force. Even though she grew up as an outsider (a foreigner) but her talent for short fiction stories rose her teacher’s interest. James Baldwin convinced her to become a screenwriter. Furthermore, Parks wants to “converse with history to
Cathy Caruth once said ‘The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess.’ It is true that fictional narratives are not always derived from the personal views or experiences of the author who is writing them. But at times, they can perfectly capture trauma so convincingly that we are almost convinced they are drawing off of first-hand experience. Cathy Caruth, a trauma theorist, has summated