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To examine how cultural and personal identification are constructed in the poetry of Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde within a multicultural framework.

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Cultural- And Self-Identification in African American Women’s Poetry: Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde

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To examine how cultural and personal identification are constructed in the poetry of Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde within a multicultural framework.
Textual and rhetorical analysis of selected poems by Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde.
Application of theoretical frameworks grounded in women's studies, United States history, and multicultural literary theory.
Evaluation of linguistic devices, including conceptual dichotomies, musical and storytelling patterns, and lexical repetition.
Linguistic and rhetorical structures, such as allusions to precedent names and syntactical repetitions, systematically anchor racial, ethnic, and gender self-identification across texts.
Poetic structures operate dialogically, functioning as vital links between generations and community members to transmit shared cultural codes.

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Literary analysis reveals linguistic mechanisms of self-identification in African American women's poetry, highlighting how dialogic forms transmit cultural codes across generations.

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Olga Dolgusheva (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7067e62163a0a01bc49f8f https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2018.11.2837

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Literary analysis reveals linguistic mechanisms of self-identification in African American women's poetry, highlighting how dialogic forms transmit cultural codes across generations.

Cultural- And Self-Identification in African American Women’s Poetry: Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde

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Cultural- And Self-Identification in African American Women’s Poetry: Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde

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