All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Maya Angelou
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Accra, Ghana
- Principal Characters: Maya Angelou, Guy, Julian Mayfield, Alice Windom, Vicki Garvin, Sheikhali, Members of the Revolutionist Returnees
- 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
Though she is known for many things—writing poetry, acting, directing, dancing—Maya Angelou is probably most famous for her autobiographies, of which All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes is the fifth. 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) relate Angelou’s beginnings in Stamps, Arkansas, and depict her internal and external journeys leading to Ghana, the primary locale of All...
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