玛雅·安吉罗的《我知道笼中鸟为何歌唱》是美国黑人女性文学创作的重要里程碑。作者根据自身的经历创作了这部自传体小说,展现了樊笼中的黑人文化身份意识,在已有基础上对黑人自传体小说既继承又发展。本文拟从小说中的命名现象来分析安吉罗对黑人自传体小说的继承与发展。 Maya Angelo’s “I Know Why Caged Birds Sing” is an important milestone in the writing of black women in the United States. Based on his own experience, the author created this autobiographical novel, which shows the awareness of black cultural identities in the cage, and inherits and develops the autobiographical black novels on the existing basis. This article intends to analyze Angela’s inheritance and development of black autobiographical novels from the naming phenomenon in the novel.