Voices from the Quarters
Subtitle: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines (Southern Literary Studies)
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807129104
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; American English; USA; American - African American; American - African American & Black; American - General
First sentence: SOUTHERN LOUISIANA . . . CAJUN country . . . Pointe Coupee . . . New Roads . . . Oscar . . . River Lake plantation . . . False River . . . pecan tress and live oaks . . . fields of sugarcane and cotton . . . bayous and "parishes" . . . "galleries" on plantation homes . . . cabins in "the quarters": these compose the place of Ernest Gaines's fiction.