From the Online Content - First edition.
The Author. On Maya Angelou / Mildred R. Mickle
Biographical sketch: Maya Angelou / Mildred R. Mickle. Critical Contexts. Formalist criticism and the artistic merits of Maya Angelou's poetry / Robert C. Evans
Literature review of the secondary sources on Maya Angelou's life and work / Martin Kich
Spirituals and blues enclosed: a comparative analysis of Black folk forms in the poetry of Maya Angelou, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes / Mildred R. Mickle
The censorship of Maya Angelou's work / Martin Kich. Critical Readings: Angelou's Prose. Paradoxical phrasing in the later autobiographies of Maya Angelou / Robert C. Evans
Humor in the autobiographical writings of Maya Angelou: Maya meets Mr. Julian / Jason Shifferd
Maya Angelou and Zora Neale Hurston as authors of autobiographies / Sarah Fredericks
Angelou on Angelou: a survey of opinions expressed in interviews and conversations before 1989 / Christina M. Garner
Further conversations with Maya Angelou: a survey of interviews from 1990 to 2014 / Kelley Jeans
Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Maya Angelou's essays / Stephen Paul Bray
The rust on the razor that threatens the throat: Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Claudine Raynaud. Critical Readings: Angelou's Poetry. On the pulse of peace: Maya Angelou, a nation's poet / Tomeiko Ashford Carter
The "Sea Never Dry": the theme of Africa in select poetry by Maya Angelou / Mildred R. Mickle
Gender and the poetic ingenuity in the poems of Maya Angelou / Robert C. Evans.