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, May 21, 2015

Langston Hughes's "Mulatto: A Tragedy of the South" and Gaines's "Bloodline"

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Ambassador Theater Playbill for Hughes's Mulatto Last post , I wrote about Frank Laurent being a representation of the decaying Sout...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The Decaying South in "Bloodline"

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River Lake Plantation 1938  This past weekend, I read Gaines's "Bloodline" (1968) alongside Langston Hughes's Mulatto:...
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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Mitchell S. Jackson's "The Residue Years"

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I just finished Mitchell S. Jackson's The Residue Years (2013) which won the 2014 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence . ...
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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