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Kanyashree Prakalpa –

a coming of–age–journey

The caged bird sings /
with a fearful trill /of things unknown/
but longed for still

In her seminal 1969 autobiography “I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings” Maya Angelou,
who has been described as a symbolic
character for every black girl living in
America, refuses to be confined by the
constraints of her personal history and the
histories of all the African – American
women of her time. Instead she evolves
from being a childhood victim of systemic
racism, abuse, poverty and patriarchy to a
self–deterministic adult with a strong
sense of her own identity in a deeply
unequal society.