In the following excerpt, Babb discusses the theme of leadership and the qualities of Jane Pittman as a leader.
From Jackie Robinson to Mane Laveau to nature, all the elements of Jane's narrative show her life to be a microcosm of the vast panorama of African-American culture-its people, its history, its myth, its vision. She is a personified archive that in the first two books of her narrative records the African-American past and her place in it, and in the third provides an insightful commentary on African-American and larger American society. The fourth and last book of her autobiography, "The Quarters," is not so much a record of the past as a blueprint for the future. Its immediacy is represented through the lack of section titles that divide the other books of the work. Previously,.....
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