O corpo-corpus que cala e fala: interseccionalidade em Maya Angelou
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https://doi.org/10.34019/1982-0836.2025.v29.48957Keywords:
autobiography, body, Black literature, intersectionalityAbstract
This article analyzes Maya Angelou’s autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from an intersectional perspective, highlighting how the author develops a poetics of the Black female body-corpus. The analysis focuses on the interplay of race, gender, class, and disability, demonstrating how Angelou transforms subaltern experiences into literary and political material. Through scenes of humiliation, silence, and spirituality, the text reveals how Angelou inscribes Black subjectivities into an ethical and aesthetic narrative, in which the body both silences and speaks, challenging erasure and reconfiguring modes of existence.
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