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Voices From The Quarters: The Fiction Of Ernest J. Gaines (Southern Literary Studies),Used
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A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWho will write about the way my people talk, the way my people sing? Mary Ellen Doyle gathers and makes audible the voices arising from all of Ernest J. Gainess fiction to datethe indelible characters who inhabit the authors lifelong inspirational territory: the bayous, cane fields, and plantation homes of Louisianas Pointe Coupee Parish. Beginning with the authors upbringing and influences on River Lake plantationamid the pecan trees and live oaks, the big house and the tenant quarters this penetrating study offers close readings of Gainess uncollected short fiction, the early collection Bloodline, and all of his novels, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the acclaimed A Lesson Before Dying.Highlighting Gainess skill at translating oral tales into meaningful fictional forms, Doyle advances an original theory of firstperson narration (camcorder) and traces its use throughout his work. Gainess unwavering focus on the utterances of his people continually strengthens his artistic developmentthe voices of the early stories fusing with those of the later novelsuntil Gaines earns a unique magisterial voice, an implied author who is black but speaks to universals.Using critical methods as eclectic as the books intended audience, and drawing from onsite research and interviews with Gainess relatives and friends, Doyle offers a variety of perspectives on Gainess fiction and its world that resonates so powerfully. Those who recognize Gaines as one of the finest southern writers of the last forty years will find here an accessible instrument to hear his voices more clearly than ever.
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