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QUESTÃO 03
Maya Angelou changed Americans' idea of whose stories are worth telling
Maya Angelou died in 2014, [and] during her lifetime, the writer was a towering cultural figure, whose stories of trauma and racism showed that the stories of black women could find mainstream success.
Angelou's gritty and intensely personal memoirs were a powerful demonstration to the American publishing industry and literary community that the stories of black women mattered, even to white readers. The first of her memoirs, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was published in 1970. Angelou recalls her childhood, in which she was first shipped away by her parents, then collected back without warning, a few years later, to live with her mother.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings spent at least six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, which was exceedingly rare for an African American woman writing in the 1970s. Zora Neale Hurston, who published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, didn't achieve mainstream critical acclaim until after her death, and Toni Morrison's Beloved wouldn't be published until 1987.
Disponivel em: www.qz.com. Acesso em: 2 mar. 2022 (adaptado).
Segundo o texto, a aclamada escritora estadunidense Maya Angelou
(A) teve a importância de seu trabalho reconhecida apenas após a sua morte.
(B) consolidou sua carreira através de obras de ficção desconectadas de sua própria vivência.
C falhou em alcançar grandes vendas de suas obras por estar limitada a um público específico.
(D) demonstrou que as histórias de mulheres afro-americanas importam e merecem ser contadas por meio de suas obras.
(E) consolidou seu trabalho através de publicações independentes por não ter sido reconhecida pela indústria literária estadunidense.
