Singing the Power of Black Motherhood in the Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Abstract

In order to define Black motherhood, this research will explore mother-child interactions, alternative mother figures, altering marital balances, and women-men relationships. In addition to expressing her African American perspective, Angelou reflected it in the personalities, songs, and events she utilized in her autobiographies. Her autobiographies are extremely true to reality since she covers historical political happenings and well-known figures from actual life. The bonds that unite women of all eras, from all ethnicities, and from all countries are bridged by commonalities of joy and agony, adversity and despair, as well as ascent and descent, all of which revolve around the specification and design of motherhood. According to Maya Angelou, black mothers are wary, worried, and preoccupied with their kids in her concept of being a black mother, she adds that being single means that her lover has rejected her. Motherhood has endured as an idea and peculiarity that has moved from African communities to “modern” African American familial and societal formations, serving as a stark example of empowerment for women who have resisted the onrush of male supremacy in every aspect of their personal and societal reality. Traditional and intellectual discourse show that matrilineal conceptions of motherhood have persisted, whether by choice, by need, or by threat. She claims that white people who do not consider her hold all positions of authority in the outside world. This paper renders a perspective on the overall typical “motherhood format” of the blacks which serve as their strength altogether in the autobiographies of Maya Angelou.