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Ernest J. Gaines
"The best black writer in America" (Time) joins the Library of America with a volume collecting 4 landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America
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Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) has been publishing stories and novels for more than sixty years. His brilliant portrayals of race, community, and culture in rural south Louisiana have made…
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Karen Carmean
The first study of Ernest J. Gaines’ work for high school students and fans of his work.
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Keith Clark
One of the South’s most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. In this welcome guide to Gaines’s fiction, Keith Clark offers insightful analyses of his…
Mary Ellen Doyle
Drawing on extensive research and conversations and interviews with Gaine’s relatives and friends in River Lake Plantation, Louisiana, Mary Ellen Doyle offers a lively and illuminating study of the scope…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Ernest J. Gaines’s Sky Is Gray, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Ernest J Gaines
The arrival in a southern town of a young, unkempt man results in a sudden confrontation with past sin and error on the part of the town’s most respected Black…
Catherine, a young Louisiana Black woman, is caught up in the racial tensions between white, Black, and Cajun in the rural plantation area.
The murder of a white Cajun farmer named Boutan unleashes a fury of buried hatred and defiance, as Sheriff Mapes tries to indentify the killer and prevent revenge.
Ruth Laney
Combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer Ernest J. Gaines. In clear and vivid…
In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, bestselling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming…
Set in rural southern Louisiana this book spans 100 years of American history, from the early 1860s to the 1960s. Jane Pittman, a child at the end of the Civil…
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun…
A funny and affectionate story set on an eventful day on a sugarcane plantation in the 1940s rural South.
Fictional biography of a Black slave, who lived for 100 years after the Civil War.
Set on a Louisiana sugar cane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer…
-Ernest J. Gaines’s new novella is about a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the…
Originally published in 1971, this novel spans 100 years of American history–from the early 1860s to the onset of the civil rights movement in the 1960s–in following the life of…
A Black, who seeks revenge against his oppressive white employers, is doomed when he breaks the most honored rule of love in the South.
Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when…
From Frederick Douglass onwards, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. This title explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest…
Herman Beavers
Herman Beavers offers a richly nuanced study of Ernes J. Gaines, James Alan McPherson, and Ralph Ellison as writers who have found ways to invest circumstances that might otherwise be…
Award-winning classic novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South.
