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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. She tells of the major events of her life from the.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War. The novel was dramatized in a TV movie in 1974, starring Cicely Tyson.

Ernest Gaines may just be the best black writer in America. RL4, IL age 5 and up. The autobiography of miss jane pittman. A Bantam Book, published by arrangement with The Dial Press. He is so good, in fact, that he makes the category seem meaningless. Melvin Maddocks, Time. This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960’s.

Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' 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 her voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story in it al. - Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek.

Ernest J. Gaines filled The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman with so much historical content, and the voice of Jane Pittman carried such a sense of truth, that upon its original publication, many people thought the novel was non-fiction

Ernest J. Gaines filled The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman with so much historical content, and the voice of Jane Pittman carried such a sense of truth, that upon its original publication, many people thought the novel was non-fiction. Gaines said, "Some people have asked me whether or not The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is fiction or nonfiction. When Dial Press first sent it out, they did not put "a novel" on the galleys or on the dustjacket, so a lot of people had the feeling that it could have been real.

Электронная книга "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", Ernest J. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" для чтения в офлайн-режиме. Gaines, who wrote of the inner struggle for dignity among Southern black people before the civil rights era in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and other acclaimed novels, died on Tuesday at his home in Oscar, La. He was 86. His death was announced by the University o. .

Mr. Gaines, who spent his early years on a Louisiana plantation, captured the lives and strivings of those he had grown up with in a time of limited opportunities and oppressive racism. Many of the adults he knew in childhood had little education, giving him an accidental.

I watched the ground getting blacker and more damp. With the sun straight up we came to the bayou that I knowed we had been headed toward for so long. le on my head, Ned on my hip. The water came up to my knees most the time, and sometimes it even got high as my waist. How I made it over only the Lord knows. But I made it and found a good place to sit down and rest. By the time I had rested, my dress had dried out, and we started walking again. We came in another thicket where they had had plenty fighting.

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Four years later, Miss Jane Pittman established Gaines as a literary master of American fiction. A work of historical fiction, the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman takes place in rural Louisiana. Since then, he has won numerous awards, including a National Books Critic Circle Award and a MacArthur "genius" grant, and has published several collections of short stories and several novels.