The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Techniques/Literary Precedents
Gaines's successful use of the dialects and tones of rural southerners of all races has invited comparisons to Faulkner, and specifically Miss Jane to Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury (1929). Any list of comparable southern white writers should also include Eudora Welty. As a writer of historical fiction, Gaines can also be compared to William Styron, whose Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) recounted the course of a slave rebellion, though Gaines's work has an authenticity that Styron's appears to lack. The same might be said of Gaines's white predecessor, Harriet Beecher Stowe; Gaines...
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