Showing posts with label catherine carmier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catherine carmier. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2015

"A Visitation of Spirits" and the Past

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African American sharecropper and wife grading tobacco in North Carolina (New York Public Library) On Tuesday , I wrote about the idea o...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

In the Background of Chandler's "The Big Sleep"

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Last post, I spoke about Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and class in the novel. Today, I want to briefly return to a subject that I ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

The Clerk and Social Distinctions on Cane River in Saxon's "Children of Strangers"

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Yucca (Melrose) Plantation Last post , I discussed Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers  (1937) and some of the themes that it has in ...
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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Lyle Saxon's "Children of Strangers"

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Saxon at Yucca (Melrose) Plantation In 1937, Lyle Saxon published Children of Strangers . The novel, which takes place on Cane River ...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

The Little Stream: An Early Draft of Catherine Carmier

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Box 1-Folder 7 The Little Stream In preparation for the Second Annual Ernest J. Gaines Lecture tomorrow by Dr. John Lowe, I would like ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

50th Blog Post

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Today marks the 50th blog post for the Ernest J. Gaines Center 's blog. I did not plan it out this way, but it seems only fitting that t...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

The Celebration Continues

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Over the past few weeks, the center has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ernest J. Gaines' first novel publication Catherine C...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Specter of Lynching

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E. Simms Campbell's I Passed Along This Way for An Art Commentary on Lynching Jenny Woodley, in Art for Equality: The NAACP's C...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Creoles in Catherine Carmier

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Over the past couple of posts, I have written about the changing land in Catherine Carmier , Jackson's relationship to the community up...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

"Idle White Rich" in Catherine Carmier

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Map of False River in Pointe Coupee Parish.  As Catherine drives Lillian home, Lillian looks out at the river and notices that the calm...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Jackson, Community, and Teaching

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Speaking with Michael Sartisky in 1993, Gaines relates that many African American teachers fell into the profession because someone pushed...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

The Changing Land in Catherine Carmier

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From the very beginning of   Catherine Carmier   (1964), technological advancements and their effects on the rural African American commu...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Gaines and the Struggle to Become a Writer

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1964 cover Catherine Carmier (1964), on first glance, comes across as a Romeo & Juliet type of story. However, nothing could be fur...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Year of Anniversaries

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The picture above is one of the display cases in the Ernest J. Gaines Center. It contains items representing four of the major anniversar...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

The Cemetery and the Church

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Inside of church In the previous post , I talked about Gaines' relationship to the land where he grew up. That land appears in all o...
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