Further Reading
- Anthony, Booker T., "Review of A Lesson before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines," CLA Journal 37, no. 2 (December 1993): 235-42. (Anthony evaluates the characterization, narrative techniques, and themes of A Lesson before Dying.)
- Bryant, Jerry H., "Ernest J. Gaines: Change, Growth, and History," Southern Review 10, no. 4 (1974): 851-64. (Bryant situates Gaines's early fiction in the tradition of classic American literature, discussing the archetypal dimensions of Gaines's primary themes and characters.)
- Fitzsimmons, Lorna, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: Film, Intertext, and Ideology," Studies in the Humanities (June-December 2001): 94-111. (Fitzsimmons analyzes the intertextual relationship between the novel and the film versions of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in order to show the film's ideological implications.)
- Gaudet, Marcia, "Miss Jane and Personal Experience Narrative: Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," Western Folklore 51, no. 1 (January 1992): 23-32. (Gaudet focuses on Gaines's use of first-person narrative strategies in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman to demonstrate the role that oral folk traditions play in illiterate communities.)
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