Catherine Carmier (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest J. Gaines
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Southern Louisiana
- Principal Characters: Jackson Bradley, Catherine Carmier, Raoul Carmier, Charlotte, Della, Madame Bayonne
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, Parents and children, Love or romance, Biracial people, South or Southerners, Education or educators, Creoles, Cajuns, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers
- Locales: South (U.S.), Louisiana
The Novel
In Catherine Carmier, the arrival in a small rural community in southern Louisiana of two outsiders—two natives who have been away—threatens the tentative equilibrium that has been established within the community. Whether that equilibrium can ever be reestablished, and whether it should be, are questions that the novel explores.
Jackson Bradley has come home after being graduated from college in California. His aunt, Charlotte, believes he has come home to stay, that he will settle down to teaching in the community, and that he will probably marry...
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