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Racism Recognized and the Reformation of the South in Ernest Gaines‘
According to Ernest Gaines‘ personal experiences as a Southerner, without addressing the history of slavery, the quest for human dignity becomes meaningless. The discourses and the ideologies of the characters in <em> AGathering of Old Men </em>represent a call for social change. <em>A Gathering of …
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Resistance and Identity in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson Before Dying, and A Gathering of Old Men
… resistance as a method of identity formation in Ernest Gaines' <italic>The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman<italic>, <italic>A Lesson Before Dying<italic>, and <italic>A Gathering of Old Men<italic>. For this purpose, I situate the author's focus on rural southern black communities as a way of …
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The Journey to Manhood in Gaines' Bloodline
Ernest Gaines collection of five short stories Bloodline, (1968) depicts the effects of racism and its denigrating effects on the lives of the black men. Gaines use of animal imagery furthers the effects of racism on the psychology of the blacks. The resolution comes around in the form of a mentor …
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Tracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fiction
… story collection The Leaving); black aesthetics (Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying); cultural studies (M. E. Kerr’s Night Kites); and the application of several theories to Katherine Patterson’s Jacob Have I Loved. The concluding chapter sets the voices of theorists and teachers into …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, and Ernest Gaines as the contemporary prison's literary intermediaries, as writers whose fictional narratives of jailhouse beatings, rape and wounding on slave ships, and state-sponsored execution are inspired and haunted by the critically-unexamined …
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Confronting Manhood: The Struggle of Male Characters in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines.
… study examines the African-American author Ernest Gaines's three works <em>The Sky is Gray</em>, <em>In My Father's House</em>, and <em>A Lesson before Dying</em> as examples of oppressed manhood, and the gradual acceptance of the characteristics of manhood in Black males. Chapter One …