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1971 novel coarse Ernest J. Gaines

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Approaches to Teaching Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Other Works

Acknowledgments (vii)

Preface (ix)

PART ONE: MATERIALS

John Wharton Lowe

Editions and Anthologies (3)

Courses and Contexts (4)

The Instructor’s Library (5)

PART TWO: APPROACHES

Introduction (11)

John Wharton Lowe and Herman Beavers

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“On His Own Two Feet”: Teaching Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman through Racial History (18)

Simone A. James Alexander

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Gothic Heart of Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (35)

Ineke Bockting

Miss Jane’s South: Southern Literature, Intertextuality, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (47)

Terrence Tucker

Humor and Folk Culture in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (56)

John Wharton Lowe

Whose Story Is This? Teaching The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Novel to Film (66)

Margaret D. Bauer

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in Relation to Other Works by Gaines 

Media Adaptations and Gaines’s Novels (76)

Valerie Babb

Gaines and the Black Power and Black Arts Movements (83)

James Smethurst

Other Novels

An International and Compara

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"Grand, robust, a rich and big novel."--Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review

"In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines's novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman's] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all."--Newsweek

Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines's now-classic novel--written as an autobiography--spans one hundred years of Miss Jane's remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope--as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all.

A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane's eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America--and stands as a landmark work for our time.

Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Author Name:Gaines, Ernest J.

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