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Maya Angelou - Coggle Diagram
Maya Angelou
courage and resilience/resistance
contextualise resilience
race, gender and class
then talk about american civil rights movement - use a few bits, not so much detail
individual resilience and and resistance as a group
refusal, still i rise
talk about Angelou as a part of a group
representative of black woman
what does it mean to resist oppression as a black woman
motherhood/womanhood
opposite of oppression
response to different kinds of oppression
through subversion
someone existing through ageing
subverted coz the old person is happy and internalised idea of age and accepted and living well at any age
poems
thank you lord, just like job, on ageing, bump d'bump, life doesn't frighten me, aint that bad, still i rise
one more round, woman work, willie, momma welfare roll, inner city suburbs, california prodigal
the lesson, phenomenal woman, refusal,
history
blackness
slavery
generational memory/trauma
cyclical references
identity and oppression
connection to geography
connection to the land and nature
deep connection with the land
association with that place
self image/knowledge
recognition of worth
aging
body/sexuality
blackness/identity
what does it mean to be a black woman at that time
womanhood
human world <=> natural world
growth and darker knowledge
self realisation is not always a happy process
can be traumatic and violent
recognition of history
thank you lord
ain't that bad
violence
poems
a kind of love some say
men
country lover
remembrance
mayybe phenomenal women - hints of violence and how she can rise above it
the lesson
my arkansas
lady luncheon club - dismissive opinion/attitude to violence
to beat the child was bad enough
still i rise - rising above violence
kin - not exactly - more history
one on gender - one on race
not narrow gender violence perspective
history, race, gender
views on violence
race
silence and opression
gender
sexual
emotional
class
domestic
romance
poems
a kind of love some say
country lover
rememberance
where we belong a duet
refusal
entire except phenomenal woman
and still i rise
if you can see links then you can use it
different depictions of romance
conventional heteronomitive romance
man and woman - in love - happily ever after
often subverted in her poetry
kind of subversions
linked with race, violence, sex, gender
construction of the male and female lovers
how are they depicted
Loss/Grief/Despair/Gratitude
hope that rises from the ashes of loss/despair - a phoenix
presentation of grief as
acceptance?
resignation?
poems
Thank you lord (gratitude), just like job (hope rising fm ashes),
the memory (loss and despair), kin (gratitude and loss), the traveler (manless and friendless), the singer will not sing, to beat the child was bad enough, my arkansas, momma welfare roll, the lesson,
junkie monkey reel, men (grief)
race
poems
junkie monkey reel
inner city to the suburbs
phenomenal woman
one more round
willie
my arkansas
woman work - a little
ain't that bad
bump d' bump
the memory
just like Job
views on race
race as inextricable from identity
doesn't make a distinction
black pride
cultures/rituals/traditions
resistance
poverty
oppression
gender
history
ask a question
what are views on....
note this down - few points
textual references
gender
views on gender
sexuality and violence
femininity and feminism/female identity
masculinity as opposed to femininity
(construction of masculinity and femininity and compare and see how one is created/described as opposed to another)
gender and work/domesticity
kind of work they do in domestic spaces
history/poverty/race
black womanhood
romance
comment on presentation of romance and relationships in any 2 of maya angelou's poems
choose 2 poems where it is subverted
love poem and a violence one
poems
a kind of love some say
country lover
phenomenal woman
men
refusal
just for a time
momma welfare roll
woman work
on ageing
still i rise
poverty
poems
momma welfare roll
lady luncheon club
the contrast
through the inner city to the suburbs
reimaging of space - which would be considered poor
junkie monkey reel
still i rise
woman work
views on poverty
subversion of traditional constructs of rich and poor
class oppression
race
gender
language of economy/capitalism
to talk about identities
oppression
poems
mostly everything
touch me life not softly - sexual and racial violence
poverty included
violence and race
interesting way to look at it
look at power
comment on the presentation of oppression
sexual, gender poverty, racial
power dynamic
one or 2 themes
2 diff kinds of oppression
class and sexual/racial and gender
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