The Mississippi Quarterly, December 22nd, 1993
Valerie Melissa Babb's Ernest Gaines is a welcomed addition to Twayne's United States Authors Series. Babb presents Gaines as "The Bayou Griot," emphasizing both the African-American storytelling heritage and the French Louisiana culture so prominent in Gaines's fiction. The book is very carefully researched, both in terms of previous Gaines scholarship and in terms of general background information on Louisiana history and culture. It includes a thorough introduction to Gaines and his fiction, with discussions of the Bloodline stories and the novels Catherine Carmier, Of Love and Dust, The ...
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