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Ernest Gaines (1933-)
African American novelist and short story writer.
Author's life and works
"About the Author" from Random House
Gaines, Ernest J. from Literature Online biography
“Ernest J. Gaines” from African American Writers
Interviews
2006 interview: “The Scribe of River Lake Plantation: A Conversation with Ernest J. Gaines”
by Anne Gray Brown from Southern Quarterly, Hattiesburg: Fall 2006.
2003 interview: “The last regionalist? An interview with Ernest J. Gaines.”
by Rose Anne Brister from Callaloo: a journal of African-American and African arts and letters (Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Summer 2003.
1999 interview: “A MELUS interview with Ernest J. Gaines.”
by Wolfgang Lepschy, MELUS, Spring 1999.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971)
"An overview of Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" by Jeannine Johnson from Exploring Novels, Gale, 1998.
"Jane Didn't Stay in a Corner." by Alice Walker from New York Times Book Review, May 23, 1971.
"Overview: Ernest J. Gaines: Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" from Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them, Volume 5: Civil Rights Movements to Future Times (1960 2000), edited by Joyce Moss and George Wilson, Gale Research, 1997.
"The Black Pseudo-Autobiographical Novel: Miss Jane Pittman and Houseboy," by Bede M. Ssensalo from African Literature Today: "14 Insiders and Outsiders," edited by Eldred Durosimi Jones, Heinemann, 1984, pp. 93-110.
Ernest J. Gaines : a critical companion E-book available through the university library. Contains a chapter on Miss Jane Pittman.
“A Moveable Form: The Loose End Blues of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," by John F.Callahan from In the African-American Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction, University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 189-216.
"A Conversation with Ernest Gaines," by Ruth Laney form The Southern Review, Vol. X, No. 1, January, 1974, pp. 1-14.
"'We Ain't Going Back There': The Idea of Progress in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," by William L. Andrews from Black American Literature Forum, winter 1977.
Other criticism
"A Breed Between: Racial Mediation in the Fiction of Ernest Gaines" by Maria Hebert-Leiter from MELUS (Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, Summer 2006.
Ernest J. Gaines : a critical companion E-book available through the university library.
Other links
African American links
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