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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersJust as Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote about a European Jewish culture that had been destroyed before he began writing, so too has Ernest Gaines written about a culture that almost has been destroyed by economic and social...
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From: The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South[(essay date 2009) In this essay, Harris focuses on the character Procter Lewis in Gaines's short story "Three Men" in order to comment on the author's development of the theme of manhood and the social and racial ideas...
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From: Callaloo[(interview dates 27 November and 11 December 2001) In the following interviews, which took place in November and December of 2001, Gaines discusses his regional and emotional ties to Louisiana, comments on his overall...
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From: Southern Quarterly[(essay date spring 2004) In this essay, Piacentino centers on the relationship between the characters Paul Bonin and Grant Wiggins in A Lesson before Dying as one that "represents the possibility for eventual change and...
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From: Southern Quarterly[(interview date fall 2006) In the following interview, Gaines discusses the influence of plantation life on his growth as a writer, his use of father/son themes in his narratives, and the prevalence of strong women in...
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From: The New York Times Book ReviewNear the end of Ernest J. Gaines's novel A Lesson before Dying, set in the fictional town of Bayonne, La., in 1948, a white sheriff tells a condemned black man to write in his diary that he has been fairly treated....
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From: MELUS[(review date summer 1996) In the following review, Wardi focuses on the relationship between Wiggins and Jefferson in A Lesson before Dying, assessing the characters's personal transformations and the significance of...
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From: Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays[(essay date 2009) In the essay below, Young discusses Gaines's works in the context of a wider critical discussion about the influence (or lack of it) of earlier African American authors on later ones, arguing that...
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From: Southern Studies[(essay date fall & winter 1994) In the following essay, Mallon studies the deconstruction of white-dominated discourse by African American men vis-à-vis their dialogue with both the black and white communities.] [A...
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From: Los Angeles Times[(review date 9 October 2005) In the following review, Doyle provides a positive assessment of Mozart and Leadbelly, emphasizing the spiritual resonance of "Christ Walked down Market Street."] Fans of Ernest J. Gaines'...
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From: Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Byerman explores A Gathering of Old Men,Miss Jane Pittman, and A Lesson before Dying as narratives about the past and possible future of the African American community in the...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The fictive world of Ernest J. Gaines, as well as certain technical aspects of his works, might be compared to that of William Faulkner. But useful as such a comparison may be, it should not be pursued to the point of...
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From: Interdisciplinary Humanities[(interview date 17 December 2002) In the following interview, conducted on 17 December 2002, Gaines converses with Gaudet and Bourque about the influence of nonliterary art, especially music, on his writings and talks...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs many critics have noted, Ernest J. Gaines's novels comprise an extended treatise on black male identity in the United States. Yet the novels do not produce one static viewpoint; instead, they demonstrate Gaines's...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTWO THINGS HAPPENED at the school during the weeks before I visited Jefferson in jail. The superintendent of schools made his annual visit, and we got out our first load of wood for winter. We heard on Monday by...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFrom the omniscient point of view, Ernest J. Gaines opens his 1978 In My Father's House with a reference to the Reverend Phillip Martin, the charismatic preacher and community activist in the St. Adrienne parish of...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJeffery Folks, in noting the communal function of the Christmas/Easter religious symbolism in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying, argues that Gaines's "use of language is grounded in a historical community in...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe word in language is half someone else's. It becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and...
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From:African American Writers (Vol. 1. 2nd ed.)THADIOUS M. DAVIS Introduction “I THINK ONE of the greatest things that has happened to me, as a writer and as a human being, is that I was born in the South, that I was born in Louisiana,” Ernest Gaines reflected in...