The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest J. Gaines
- First Published: 1971
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Historical fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, Values, Racism, Love or romance, Race, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Courage, Protests or demonstrations, Social issues
- Locales: South (U.S.), New Orleans, LA
The Work
In The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman the heroine and many African Americans in south Louisiana move from passivity to heroic assertion and achieve a new identity. Gaines’s best-known novel is not an autobiography but a first-person reminiscence of a fictional 110-year-old former slave whose memories extend from the Emancipation Proclamation to Martin Luther King, Jr. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman tells her unschooled but adept version of state and national occurrences and personalities (Huey Long, the flood of 1927, the rise of black...
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