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Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson » Read Now
by Herman Beavers. 286 pgs.

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...into Song The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson...and Going to the Territory ; Ernest J. Gaines, In My Fathers House, A Gathering...Room. JCA Literary...
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In the Singer's Temple: Prose Fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski » Read Now
by Jack Hicks. 293 pgs.

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Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe ("Three Men" by Ernest J. Gaines begins on p. 205) » Read Now
by Charles H. Rowell. 606 pgs.

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The 70 uncut stories in this collection comprise 36 writers from the United States and 34 from Europe and the Americas. It is an anthology which exemplifies the diversity of writers from the African diaspora.
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Communal Responsibility in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson before Dying, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by Jeffrey J. Folks. 13 pgs.

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"'His Feet on Your Neck'": The New Religion in the Works of Ernest J. Gaines, in African American Review » Read Now
by Lee Papa. 7 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...the new religion in the works of Ernest J. Gaines by Lee Papa Central to the work of Ernest J. Gaines is the question of the place of...establishment of new identity. For...
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Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African-American Fiction (Chap. 6 "'You Don't See What I Don't See': Communal Construction of Meaning in Ernest Gaines's Fiction") » Read Now
by Philip Page. 260 pgs.

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An examination of how the works of five African American writers reveal the power for communal bonds.
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Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (Chap. 10 "Aging and the African-American Community: The Case of Ernest J. Gaines") » Read Now
by Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker. 256 pgs.

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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to...
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Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.
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Discourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text (Chap. 4 "History, the Black Nationalist Discourse, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman") » Read Now
by W. Lawrence Hogue. 196 pgs.

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...Clotel, or The Presidents Daughter 1853 to Ernest J. Gaines The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1971 . Gayle...American reviewers. In his review in the Nation , Ernest...
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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English ("Ernest J. Gaines (January 15, 1933-)" begins on p. 167) » Read Now
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from...
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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.
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The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition (1989) ("Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)" begins on p. 290) » Read Now
by Bernard W. Bell. 426 pgs.

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...ABIGAIL WALKER 285 ERNEST J. GAINES 290 WILLIAM MELVIN...and fable by Margaret Walker, Ernest Gaines, William Kelley, Ronald Fair...Ronald Fair, Charles Wright, Ernest...
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Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers ("Ernest J. Gaines: B. 1933" begins on p. 30) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 184 pgs.

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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)" begins on p. 168) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 530 pgs.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically...
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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically arranged entries begins with a biographical sketch of the author, offers a judicious critical assessment of the author's major works, provides a representative sample of the critical responses the author's books have elicited, and concludes with a selected bibliography that lists the author's publications as well as useful secondary material. Included are entries for major figures, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, but many noteworthy young writers also receive the attention they deserve. Forty-one of the 79 writers discussed are women, and roughly a dozen of the novelists have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Intended for students and advanced scholars alike, the volume is sophisticated yet accessible to a wide audience.
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (1987) ("Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)" begins on p. 196) » Read Now
by Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain. 630 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

..."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal