The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a fictional novel by Ernest Gaines. The narrative follows the life of a former slave woman who recounts her life’s story over a century of Unites States history. Beginning from her time as a slave and extending into the 1960s, Jane describes the many hardships and lessons that have come to define her life in the South. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman explores themes of slavery, oppression, manhood, class, and the struggle for equality.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines - 1971
Introduction
The novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, first published in 1971 by Dial Press, is arguably the best-known work b...
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The 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 f...
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Biography EssayErnest 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 Aut...
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"When we moved to California I was lonely, so I went to the library and began to read a lot of fiction," Ernest J. Gaines told Paul Desruisseaux in the New York Times Book Review. It was the late 1940...
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Ernest J. Gaines novelist and short story writer, was born to Manuel and Adrienne J. (Colar) Gaines on 15 January 1933 in the bayou country near Oscar, Louisiana, which lies about twenty-five miles n...
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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...
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[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 Th...
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Like any other person, culture, species, and or breed, Jane Pittman, whose account is the basis of the award winning novel, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," survived and evolved with the pres...
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines - 1971
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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