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A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400077700

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. "An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." —Boston Globe "Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times “A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Ernest J. Gaines

Marcia Gaudet

Author : Marcia Gaudet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496822192

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Ernest J. Gaines by Marcia Gaudet Pdf

As the acclaimed author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) has been publishing stories and novels for more than sixty years. His brilliant portrayals of race, community, and culture in rural south Louisiana have made him one of the most respected and beloved living American writers. Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations brings together the author’s own thoughts and words in interviews that range from 1994 to 2017, discussing his life, his work, and his literary legacy. The interviews cover all of Gaines’s works, including his two latest books, Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays (2005) and The Tragedy of Brady Sims (2017). The book provides a retrospective of his work from the viewpoint of a senior writer, now eighty-five years old, and gives an important international perspective on Gaines and his work. Among the many things Gaines discusses in his interviews are the recurrent themes in his works: the search for manhood, the importance of personal responsibility and standing with dignity, the problems of fathers and sons, and the challenges of race and racism in America. He examines his fictional world and his strong sense of place, his role as teacher and mentor, the importance of strong women in his life, and the influence of spirituality, religion, and music on his work. He also talks about storytelling, the nature of narrative, writing as a journey, and how he sees himself as a storyteller.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307830258

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.

A Gathering of Old Men

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307830388

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A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”

Mozart and Leadbelly

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307426956

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Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

The beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer in this collection of stories and essays. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines faithfully evoke the sorrows and joys of rustic Southern life. From his depiction of his childhood move to California — a move that propelled him to find books that conjured the sights, smells, and locution of his native Louisiana home — to his description of the real-life murder case that gave him the idea for his masterpiece; this wonderful collection is a revelation of both man and writer.

The Tragedy of Brady Sims

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525434474

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A courthouse shooting leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order—in the final novella by the beloved Ernest J. Gaines. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims—an honorable, just, and unsparing man who with his tough love had been handed the task of keeping the black children of Bayonne, Louisiana in line to protect them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own son makes a fateful mistake, it is up to Brady to carry out the necessary reckoning. In the telling, we learn the story of a small southern town, divided by race, and the black community struggling to survive even as many of its inhabitants head off northwards during the Great Migration.

Catherine Carmier

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307830340

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Catherine Carmier by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and confrontations which are complex, tortuous, and universal in their implications.

Of Love and Dust

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307830357

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This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and power plays out between Marcus, Bonbon, BonBon's mistress Pauline, and BonBon's wife Louise.

Voices from the Quarters

Mary Ellen Doyle

Author : Mary Ellen Doyle
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807129100

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Voices from the Quarters by Mary Ellen Doyle Pdf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Who will write about the way my people talk, the way my people sing?” Mary Ellen Doyle gathers and makes audible the voices arising from all of Ernest J. Gaines’s fiction to date—the indelible characters who inhabit the author’s lifelong inspirational territory: the bayous, cane fields, and plantation homes of Louisiana’s Pointe Coupee Parish. Beginning with the author’s upbringing and influences on River Lake plantation—amid the pecan trees and live oaks, the big house and the tenant quarters — this penetrating study offers close readings of Gaines’s uncollected short fiction, the early collection Bloodline, and all of his novels, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the acclaimed A Lesson Before Dying. Highlighting Gaines’s skill at translating oral tales into meaningful fictional forms, Doyle advances an original theory of first-person narration (“camcorder”) and traces its use throughout his work. Gaines’s unwavering focus on the utterances of “his people” continually strengthens his artistic development—the voices of the early stories fusing with those of the later novels—until Gaines earns a unique magisterial “voice,” an implied author who is black but speaks to universals. Using critical methods as eclectic as the book’s intended audience, and drawing from on-site research and interviews with Gaines’s relatives and friends, Doyle offers a variety of perspectives on Gaines’s fiction and its world that resonates so powerfully. Those who recognize Gaines as one of the finest southern writers of the last forty years will find here an accessible instrument to hear his voices more clearly than ever.

The Sky is Gray

Ernest J. Gaines,Lafayette Reads Ernest Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines,Lafayette Reads Ernest Gaines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:49284989

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A poor African American boy and his mother experience both discrimination and kindness during a trip to town to see the dentist.

Ernest J. Gaines

Karen Carmean

Author : Karen Carmean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313317255

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Ernest J. Gaines by Karen Carmean Pdf

Drawing on his rich Louisiana past, Ernest J. Gaines creates a fictional world representative of the human experience. His work explores the complex racial relationships—so much a part of Southern history and culture—and the unwritten and unspoken conventions of caste and class. Often structured around journeys of discovery, Gaines' works affirm the integrity of the individual and the unequivocal place in American life for Americans of African descent. This study offers a clear, accessible reading of Gaines' fiction. It analyzes in turn all of Gaines' novels as well as his collection of short stories. A complete bibliography of Gaines' fiction, as well as selected reviews and criticism, completes the study. Following a biographical chapter on Gaines' life, an overview of his fiction explores his work in light of his literary heritage and use of genre. Each of the following chapters examines an individual novel: Catherine Carmier (1964), Of Love and Dust (1967), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), In My Father's House (1978), A Gathering of Old Men (1983), A Lesson Before Dying (1994), and a collection of short stories, Bloodline (1968). The discussion of each work includes sections on plot and character development, thematic issues, and an alternative critical approach from which to read the novel. Carmean shows how each of Gaines' novels focuses on themes of personal value and place and affirms the need for recognizing the value of the individual, regardless of race. This study will help readers to understand the compelling issue of human relationships raised by Gaines and to see why he is one of America's finest writers.

In My Father's House

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307830371

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In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend. In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him. “…on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase…”—Kirkus Reviews

Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines

Marcia Gaudet,Carl Wooton

Author : Marcia Gaudet,Carl Wooton
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080712608X

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Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines by Marcia Gaudet,Carl Wooton Pdf

Ernest J. Gaines, the author of many acclaimed works of fiction, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Gathering of Old Men, was born in 1933 in the small south Louisiana town of Oscar. In his childhood the center of his world was the old slave quarters on the River Lake Plantation, where five generations of his family lived. All of Gaines’s books have been set in this general area of Louisiana, and though none of his work is strictly autobiographical, his writing bears the distinctive stamp of the rural folk culture amid which he was raised. Marcia Gaudet and Carl Wooton’s Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines is a collection of interviews conducted on the porch of Gaines’s home in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Gaines talks about a variety of topics, including the influence of other writers—among them Faulkner, Hemingway, and Mark Twain—on his style and the importance of oral tradition and folk culture to his writing. He discusses the major themes of his work, such as survival with dignity and the search for manhood, and he describes the relationships among the black, Creole, and Cajun communities of south Louisiana and how they have been portrayed in his fiction. Gaines also comments on the craft of writing, his role as a teacher, the film versions of some of his books, his relationships with his agent and editors, and his work in progress. This is the first book-length work on Gaines to be published. It will be of importance to scholars and students of American literature, particularly southern and Afro-American literature, because it gives the reader valuable insights into Gaines’s life and writing. The format and conversational tone of the book will also appeal to the audience drawn to Gaines’s fiction.

Bloodline

Ernest J. Gaines

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307830364

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Bloodline by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. As rendered by Gaines, this country becomes as familiar, and as haunted by cruelty, suffering, and courage, as Ralph Ellison's Harlem or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Gaines introduces us to this world through the eyes of guileless children and wizened jailbirds, black tenants and white planters. He shows his characters eking out a living and making love, breaking apart aand coming together. And on every page he captures the soul of black community whose circumstances make even the slightest assertion of self-respect an act of majestic—and sometimes suicidal—heroism. Bloodline is a miracle of storytelling. STORIES INCLUDE: A Long Day in November The Sky Is Gray Three Men Bloodline Just Like a Tree

Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

Keith Clark

Author : Keith Clark
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807173381

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Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines by Keith Clark Pdf

One of the South’s most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines’s unique literary style, depiction of the African American experience, and celebration of the rural South’s oral tradition have brought him critical praise and numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel A Lesson before Dying. In this welcome guide to Gaines’s fiction, Keith Clark offers insightful analyses of his novels and short stories. Clark’s close readings elucidate Gaines’s more acclaimed works—including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Gathering of Old Men—while also introducing lesser-known but masterfully crafted pieces, such as the story “Three Men” and the civil rights novel In My Father’s House. Gaines’s most recent work, The Tragedy of Brady Sims, receives here one of its first critical examinations. Clark shows how the themes of Gaines’s literary oeuvre, produced over the past fifty years, dovetail with issues reverberating in twenty-first-century America: race and the criminal justice system; black masculinity; the environment; the enduring impact of slavery; black southern women’s voices; and blacks’ and whites’ interpretation of history. In addition to textual discussions, the book includes an interview Clark conducted with Gaines at the writer’s home in New Roads, Louisiana, in 2014, further illuminating the inner workings and personality of this eminent literary artist.

Ernest J Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

Ernest J. Gaines by Marcia Gaudet Pdf

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

Catherine Carmier by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

Of Love and Dust by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

Voices from the Quarters by Mary Ellen Doyle Pdf

The Sky is Gray by Ernest J. Gaines,Lafayette Reads Ernest Gaines Pdf

Ernest J. Gaines by Karen Carmean Pdf

In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines by Marcia Gaudet,Carl Wooton Pdf

Bloodline by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines by Keith Clark Pdf

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