Ernest J. Gaines Center Blog

Welcome to the Ernest J. Gaines Center's blog. Here, you will find information relating to ongoing projects at the Ernest J. Gaines Center. Along with information about the Center, this blog will serve as a spot to elaborate on Gaines' work and his relation to American literature, Southern literature, African American literature, and world literature.

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Stream-of-Consciousness in Bontemps and Toomer

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Last post, I wrote about a stylistic element in Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder (1936) that I found interesting and similar to Gaines...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Migrant and Washington in Jean Toomer's "Cane"

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"When one is on the soil of one's ancestors, most anything can come to one" (17). This line, from Jean Toomer's Cane (19...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Arna Bontemps "Why I Returned (A Personal Essay)"

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Arna Bontemps left Louisiana for California around the age of three. He talks about this movement in "Why I Returned (A Personal Ess...
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