All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Maya Angelou
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Ghana and Germany
- Principal Characters: Maya Angelou, Guy
- 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 in Maya Angelou’s multi-volume series of autobiographies that began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970). That first volume treated her girlhood in Arkansas; this one takes up her life as an adult with her grown-up son in Africa, where she seeks her African roots. A book about heritage, it is also about the competing demands on a woman who is mother, artist, lover, and expatriate.
After beginning with a brief explanation why she and her son, Guy, are in Africa—so that he...
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