Voices from the quarters
Subtitle: the fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
By: Mary Ellen Doyle.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- -- Criticism and interpretation.; African Americans in literature.; Southern States -- In literature.; Louisiana -- In literature.
Description: ""Who will write about the way my people talk, the way my people sing?" Mary Ellen Doyle gathers and makes audible the voices arising from all of Ernest J. Gaines's fiction to date - the indelible characters who inhabit the author's lifelong inspirational territory: the bayous, cane fields, and plantation homes of Louisiana's Pointe Coupee Parish.

Beginning with the author's upbringing and influences on River Lake Plantation - amid the pecan trees and live oaks, the big house and the tenant quarters - this penetrating study offers close readings of Gaines's uncollected short fiction, the early collection Bloodline, and all of his novels, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the acclaimed A Lesson Before Dying."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: 1 Place, People, Personal Experience: "This Louisiana Thing" 4; title: 2 Experiments in Theme and Technique: The Uncollected Short Stories 25; title: 3 Sketching the Line, Sounding a New Voice: Bloodline 45; title: 4 The Trauma of Choice: Catherine Carmier 78; title: 5 Two Men in the System: Of Love and Dust 107; title: 6 Tales Within Tales: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 130; title: 7 The Man or the Message: In My Father's House 154; title: 8 New Visions and Voices: A Gathering of Old Men 175; title: 9 Many Teachers Taught: A Lesson Before Dying 203; title: Conclusion 234.