Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Maya Angelou
- First Published: 1976
- Time of Work: 1928–1956
- Setting: Stamps, Arkansas; New York City; San Francisco; Montreal; Paris; Venice, Italy; Athens; Tel Aviv; Morocco; and Zagreb and Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- Principal Characters: Maya Angelou, Clyde, Tosh, George Hitchcock, Wilkie, Lloyd, Lottie, Eddie
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Music or musicians, New York City, Autobiography, Paris, Dancing or dancers, San Francisco, Nightclubs, Entertaining or entertainers
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, San Francisco, CA, Stamps, AR, Montreal, Canada, Venice, Italy, Tel Aviv, Israel, Athens, Greece, Morocco, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Form and Content
Maya Angelou’s Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas is a twenty-nine-chapter autobiography that sketches the author’s early traumatic youth growing up in Stamps, Arkansas, where she was raped at the age of seven and then stopped talking for several years. Because detailed information about her childhood and young adulthood is covered in her earlier autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) and Gather Together in My Name (1974), the focus of Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like...
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