| dc.description.abstract | This article investigates how knowledge and its recursive
relation with power is manifested in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
It analyses how various contexts, such as the social, political,
cultural and historical, inform knowledge production and how
the Foucauldian concept of the knowledge/power nexus is
employed as a strategy of (dis)empowerment and resistance
by marginalized persons in her poetry. It also, explores how
Angelou’s poetry utilises the female body as the site of the
manifestation of the knowledge/power nexus and resistance.
The article utilises textual data obtained through critical reading
and analysis of poems from The Complete Collected Poetry of
Maya Angelou. In its analyses, it makes use of three poems; Men
and Phenomenal Woman and Seven Women’s Blessed Assurance.
It concludes that the knowledge/power nexus as manifested in
her poetry is representative of a vantage point from which one
stands empowered to re-examine their social situation and re
conceptualize ways in which to subvert domination. | en_US |
