The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Related Titles
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman was preceded by two novels, Catherine Carmier (1964) and Of Love and Dust (1967), and the collection of short stories, Bloodline (1968). Gaines's most successful novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman treats very convincingly, though sometimes not as dominantly, the themes of his previous works. It experiments with narrative styles employed in the earlier works. Gaines uses an omniscient narrator to expound his tale of thwarted love across the color barrier in Catherine Carmier. This theme is developed in the relationship between the Creole...
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