Showing posts with label of love and dust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label of love and dust. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2015

"Dirt" in James Baldwin's "Go Tell It On the Mountain"

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Writing about James Baldwin's, Charles Scruggs notes that "[n]o Afro-American writer in modern literature conveys better the sen...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

New Items in the Collection and Marginalia

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On Tuesday, I wrote about Sister Mary Ellen Doyle's involvement in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and how they impacted her li...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Narrative Point of View in "Of Love and Dust"

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In an unpublished speech given around 1969 in Marin County, California, Gaines speaks about the plot of Of Love and Dust and about the poli...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Crying in "Of Love and Dust"

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Back in July, I wrote about the act of crying and manhood in Gaines's works. After rereading Of Love and Dust , I noticed that for al...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Suffocating Dust in Gaines's "Of Love and Dust"

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Just as most of his stories and novels, Gaines's Of Love and Dust opens with a sort of journey. Instead of the main protagonist invol...
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

The Great Gatsby and Of Love and Dust

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Ernest Gaines has made his indebtedness to various authors known throughout the years, and some of these authors have already been discussed...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The White Eagle

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When Gaines started coming back to Louisiana and Baton Rouge to write and research, he would frequent the White Eagle (pictured above) in...