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15 January 1933 |
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 Biography of Ernest J. Gaines
8803 words, approx. 29.3 pages
 Ernest J. Gaines is one of the best known of contemporary black writers. He received popular and critical recognition for the publication and subsequent television production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. His importance in this and other wor... summary from source:
 Biography of Ernest J(ames) Gaines
8608 words, approx. 28.7 pages
Ernest J. Gaines is one of the best-known of contemporary black writers. He received popular and critical recognition for the publication and subsequent television production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. His importance in this and other wor... summary from source:
Biography of Ernest J(ames) Gaines
8524 words, approx. 28.4 pages
[This entry was updated by Keith E. Byerman (Indiana State University) from his entry in DLB 152: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series.] Ernest J. Gaines has since the publication of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in 1971 establis...
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3,779 words, approx. 13 pagesThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines In the fall of 1962, surrounded by more than 2,000 jeering white protesters, James Meredith entered the University of Mississippi as its first African American student. This event, a landmark in... summary from source:
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1,771 words, approx. 6 pages
 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, whose narrator, a 110-year-old african-american woman named Jane Pittman, tells about her life. The novel was later made into a television movie in 1974. The TV movie currently...
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 Critical Essay by Jerry H. Bryant
2,277 words, approx. 8 pages
With the appearance of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, eight years after the publication of his first story, Gaines makes the leap from promising competence to mature achievement. It is, in my opinion, one of the finest novels written since World War II in America and a distinguished contribution to our national literature. Its publication calls for a critical interpretation and assessment of all of Gaines's work…. I can think of no other contemporary American novelist whose work has p... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Addison Gayle, Jr.
623 words, approx. 2 pages
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is history rewritten and sifted through the mind of a talented novelist. It has been likened to Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury—though such comparison has relevance only in terms of themes. The themes of guilt and redemption, enmity and hatred, of men trapped in old patterns are as much a part of this novel as they are of that of the white Southerner. To these themes, however, Gaines has brought a black sensibility, which transforms them and make... Featured Essays
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