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[edit] Main characters in Caged Bird
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[edit] Rape
(Will be under "Themes" section in Caged Bird article)
Vermillion:
Angelou, as a child and young adult, believes that she is ugly, thus internalizing and challenging the somatophobia in twentieth-century racist conceptions of the black female body.[1] V. compares Angelou's treatment of rape to Harriet Jacob's in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Angelou is freer to be more explicit about her rape than Jacobs, who uses it to critique slaveholding culture. Both writers use rape as a metaphor for the suffering of their race. Rape in Caged Bird "represents the black girl's difficulties in controlling, understanding, and respecting both her body and her words"[2] Angelou connects the violation of her body and the devaluation of her words by the depiction of her self-imposed silence after Mr. Freeman's rape trial.
Lupton:
Rape is "a concept so forceful that it overcomes the autobiography, even though it is presented fairly briefly in the text".[3]
