All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Maya Angelou
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Ghana
- Principal Characters: Maya Angelou, Guy, Julian Mayfield, Ana Livia, Efua Sutherland, Vicki Garvin, Alice Windom, T. D. Kwesi Bafoo, Kwame Nkrumah, Kojo, Sheikehali, Grace Nuamah, Nana Nketsia, Kwesi Brew, Malcolm X, William V. S. Tubman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Travel writing
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Culture, Self-discovery, Acting or actors, Africa or Africans, Current events, Genealogy, Homelessness or homeless people, Job hunting, Journalism or journalists, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Perception, Traveling or travelers, Voyages
- Locales: Ghana, Manhattan, NY
Form and Content
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes is the fifth of Maya Angelou’s autobiographies. Her previous four self-portraits—I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976), and The Heart of a Woman (1981)—trace Angelou’s life from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her work during the 1960’s as a civil rights worker in America and abroad. The fifth self-portrait is both a chronological and thematic extension of Angelou’s...
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