The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines | Resources

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman For Further Study

Valerie Melissa Babb, Ernest Gaines, Twayne, 1991.

See chapter five in particular, in which Babb examines the role of a woman as narrator. Includes an annotated bibliography of Games Criticism (including articles, reviews, and interviews) up to the mid -1980s.

Hennan Beavers, Wrestling Angels into Song' The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

In the fifth chapter, Beavers contends that Games reinvasions William Faulkner's alienated South by promoting storytelling as a power for social rejuvenation and as a means to reinforce community.

B A Botkin, editor, Lay My Burden Down. A Folk History of Slavery, University of Chicago Press, 1945.

A collection of interviews with ex-slaves conducted by the Work Projects Administration in the 1930s and 1940s. Games made use of this text in creating an authentic speech pattern for Miss Jane and other characters in her...
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