Une autobiographie (document en anglais)

An autobiography is defined as the account of the life of an individual which is written by the individual. It is a biography of yourself which is written by you. It is a person that writes their own accounts of their life and works.

Angelou uses her autobiography to explore subjects such as identity, rape, racism, and literacy. She also writes in new ways about women's lives in a male-dominated society. Maya, the younger version of Angelou and the book's central character, has been called "a symbolic character for every black girl growing up in America".[1] Angelou's description of being raped as an eight-year-old child overwhelms the book, although it is presented briefly in the text. Rape is used as a metaphor for the suffering of her race. Another metaphor, that of a bird struggling to escape its cage, is a central image throughout the work, which consists of "a sequence of lessons about resisting racist oppression"

To conclude an autobiography is a book or a story about the life of a person that is written by that person. Autobiographies are sometimes co-written with the help of someone who is not the subject or are sometimes just narrated by the subject to a writer.

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