Abstract

In the autobiography ‘I Know Why Caged Birds Sing’, Maya Angelo reshapes and integrates the history of black trauma by narrating individual and collective trauma, witnessing her traumatic memory and achieving a certain degree of healing. Angelo’s trauma narrative in this autobiography not only vividly and profoundly portrays the trauma suffered by African American women, but also highlights the idea that only by reconstructing their own African American female subjectivity can trauma healing be ultimately achieved.

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