Showing posts with label the autobiography of miss jane pittman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the autobiography of miss jane pittman. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Confederate Battle Flag and Its Portrayal in Gaines's Work

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The  horrendous  events in Charleston, SC , last week at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church  cannot be erased from our colle...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Aunt Clo in Ernest J. Gaines's "Just Like a Tree"

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Your browser does not support the audio element. Ernest J. Gaines's "Just Like a Tree" concludes his short story collec...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

American Colonization Society

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During his speech by the river in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , Ned Douglass speaks about dignity and respect. He also talks abou...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Randall Kenan's "A Visitation of Spirits"

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On the surface, Randall Kenan's A   Visitation of Spirits (1989) may not seem similar to works by Ernest J. Gaines, at least in rega...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Sharecropping in Bontemps and Gaines

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Following Reconstruction, Miss Jane talks about staying in the South, even with the oppression she would inevitably face, until she cou...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Arna Bontemps and Ernest Gaines Continued

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Arna Bontemps African American Museum Last Thursday, I wrote about Arna Bontemps' " Why I Returned (A Personal Essay) ." H...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Louisiana State Capitol and Gerald Duff's "Dirty Rice"

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The Patriots The Pioneers A couple of weeks ago, I made a trip to the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Second Annual Ernest J. Gaines Summer Teaching Institute

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Last June, the Ernest J. Gaines Center hosted the First Annual Ernest J. Gaines Summer Teaching Institute . Over the course of a week, t...
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving, William Apess, and Daniel Webster

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I honestly debated about whether or not to write a blog post for Thanksgiving. Obviously, the part of my brain that t...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Trees and the Southern Landscape: James Baldwin and Ernest Gaines

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James Baldwin,   during an interview with Kenneth Parker  immediately after they met with Robert Kennedy in 1963, commented on being a South...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Dilsey and Miss Jane

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Scene from James Farnco's adaptation of The Sound and the Fury (2014) . Lorretta Devine plays Dilsey.  The previous post, " B...
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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and the Oak-Tree

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Recently, I read Ukawsaw Gronniosaw 's A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Modest Mussorgsky and Ernest Gaines

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Short Plantation Sketches "Two Women" Gaines is fond of quoting Friedrich Nietzsche on music. Nietzsche wrote, "Without ...