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Adams, Henry,
60
,
118

Adday, Comfort (Ghanaian beautician),
142
,
149

Africa: and ancestors,
151
,
156
; concept of darkness,
154–55
; and contemporary poets,
17
,
18
,
49–50
; identification with,
49–51
,
53
,
151–55
; romanticization of,
50
,
179
; and slave narrative,
157–58
; theme of motherhood,
140–41
,
153
,
154
; and travel narratives,
49–51

“The African” (Ghanaian lover),
10
,
25
,
60
,
161
,
166
,
168
,
170
,
171
,
176

Ailey, Alvin,
7

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
: alternative reading (signifying),
156–59
; character development,
143–53
; narrative point of view and structure,
138
; plot development,
140–43
; setting,
139
; style and literary devices,
55–56
; thematic issues,
53–55
; title of,
138

Alternative readings: deconstructive,
113–15
; feminist,
76–79
; psychological/feminist,
134–36
; reader-response,
174–76
; signifying,
156–59
; womanist,
96–98

Angelos, Tosh (Maya's first husband),
5
,
8
,
24
,
45
,
99
,
104

Angelou, Maya: birth of,
4
; birth of son,
7
,
79
; childhood of,
59–60
,
64–65
,
68
,
72
,
73–74
; death of,
4
,
177
; departure from Africa,
137
,
142
,
150
; education of,
15–16
; funeral of,
177–78
; honorary degrees,
4–5
; poet laureate,
21–22
; residence in Africa,
126–28
,
137–43
,
149–52
,
154–56
; special awards,
33–36
,
179
; theater and television work,
31–32
; work in film,
32–33
. See also
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
;
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
;
Gather Together in My Name
;
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
;
Mom & Me & Mom
;
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
;
A Song Flung Up to Heaven

Autobiography: and black literary tradition,
41–42
,
45–46
; and collectivity,
52–53
; and
contemporary narratives,
54–56
; and gender,
45–46
,
54
; and literacy,
52
; and literary autobiography,
49
; and prison narratives,
46–47
; and serial autobiography,
41–43
; and the spiritual,
57–58
; and success narratives,
47–49
; and travel narratives,
49–51
; and truth,
43–45
,
82–83
,
100

Baldwin, James,
1
,
4
,
10
,
49
,
59
,
161
,
168–70

Baxter, Vivian (Maya's mother and a major character),
4–6
,
11–12
; absent mother,
86
,
136
,
164
; caretaker of grandson,
103–6
,
165
; in conclusion of autobiographical series,
170–73
; death of,
12
,
28–29
,
180
; and Malcolm X,
164
; Maya's ambivalence toward,
27–28
,
164–65
; and Tosh Angelos,
104
. See also
Mom & Me & Mom

Berlin,
152–53

Bildungsroman
,
39
,
81

Black Elk Speaks
,
40
,
100

The Blacks
(Jean Genet),
8
,
32
,
48
,
59
,
138
,
153
,
163

The Book of Negroes
,
55

Brent, Linda (
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
): and collectivity,
61
; compared to male slave narratives,
54
; and confinement,
157–58
; and motherhood,
157–58
; and signifying,
157

Brew, Kwesi (Ghanaian poet),
17
,
18
,
150
,
166

Brooks, Gwendolyn,
45
,
50