All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes | Social Concerns
Maya Angelou's two years in Ghana in the early 1960s provide the material for the fifth book in her continuing autobiography. The title, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), is an obvious play on the popular spiritual, "All God's Chillun Got Wings." A clever reference to the ongoing search for place is couched in terms mindful of the black's ultimate home. Living in Ghana when she was in her mid-thirties — a mature woman — she wrote this book when she was in her mid-fifties.
Critics greeted All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes with generally kind...
[The entire page is 504 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Related Topics
Tell a friend about All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes at eNotes.
