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Dedications | Maya Angelou | MA
entitled her next volume of autobiography All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes. It is dedicated to Julian [Mayfield]
and Malcolm
and all the fallen ones who were passionately and earnestly looking for a home. Book Review Index. Gale Research. 24 Angelou, Maya. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. Random House, 2004. 883 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Maya Angelou | After her years in Africa, after her intention of giving her life to political activism was cut short by the murder of Malcolm X
, MA
returned to her goal of becoming a writer... |
Occupation | Maya Angelou | Back in the USA, when a projected vocation in politics died with Malcolm X
, she returned to nightclub singing, then, after recuperating emotionally, to the dream of becoming a writer. Meanwhile she got a... |
politics | Maya Angelou | When MA
returned from Africa to the USA she intended to throw in her lot with the fledgeling Organization of Afro-American Unity
, which Malcolm X
had launched the previous year, and which he designed... |
Textual Features | Maya Angelou | Chapter one opens on MA
's ambition to become a writer: her first beginnings, her move to New York, her joining the Harlem Writers Guild
, the terrifying experience of her first reading to... |
Textual Production | Maya Angelou | She found it hard to write this volume, to reconcile her desire to write something uplifting with such painful material as the assassinations of Malcolm X
and Martin Luther King
, race riots, and the... |
Travel | Maya Angelou | She had initially intended to leave Ghana not for the USA but for somewhere in Europe or Asia. Then a repeat run in Genet
's The Blacks took her to Frankfurt, Berlin, and... |
Violence | Maya Angelou | MA
was no sooner back in the USA than Malcolm X
was murdered. |
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