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Summary. All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes is about hopelessness and repeats the theme of displacement. However, in this instance, the sense of displacement is more complex than in I Know ...
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The book is presented in a series of episodes connected by Angelou's exploration of her identities as both an African and an African American. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes begins where the previous volume in the series, The Heart of a Woman, leaves off. Angelou and her adult son, Guy, have just moved from Cairo, Egypt, to Accra, Ghana.
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986, is the fifth book in African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography series. Set between 1962 and 1965, the book begins when Angelou is 33 years old, and recounts the years she lived in Accra, Ghana. The book, deriving its title from a Negro spiritual, begins ...
- Maya Angelou
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- 1986
- Autobiography
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is the fifth installment in a series of narrative memoirs by the poet and writer Maya Angelou. This installment recalls several years in the mid-sixties that Ms. Angelou spent in Ghana discovering the Africa of her ancestry. This book opens the reader's eye to the turbulent time of the Civil Rights ...
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 ...
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986, is the fifth book in African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography series. Set between 1962 and 1965, the book begins when Angelou is 33 years old, and recounts the years she lived in Accra, Ghana. The book, deriving its title from a ...
Mar 12, 1986 · Maya Angelou. 4.28. 7,527 ratings432 reviews. Once again, the poet casts her spell as she resumes one of the greatest personal narratives of our time. In this continuation, Angelou relates how she joins a "colony" of Black American expatriates in Ghana--only to discover no one ever goes home again.
