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Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Gaines, Ernest J. |
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AR Quiz # (Quiz Name): 729 (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Upper Grade Point Value: 13.0 This novel, supposedly the memoirs of a 110-year-old ex-slave, is a stirring tribute to survival and courage. 'This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound And The Fury.' Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the??rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works The Odyssey for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn for the clarity of her voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story in it all.'-- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek. 'Stunning. I know of no black novel about the South that excludes quite the same refreshing mix of wit and wrath, imagination and indignation, misery and poetry. And I can recall no more memorable female character in Southern fiction since Lena of Faulkner's Light In August than Miss Jane Pittman.' -- Josh Greenfeld, Life Ernest J. Gaines was born on a Louisiana plantation in 1933 and can remember working in the fields for fifty cents a day as a child of nine. He is a graduate of San Francisco State College and a recipient of a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship to Stanford University. Mr. Gaines's first novel, Catherine Carmier (1964), was awarded the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Prize. His other works include a novel, Of Love and Dust (1967), and a collection of short stories, Bloodline (1968). His stories have appeared in Southern Writing of the Sixties, The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers and American Negro Short Stories. Mr. Gaines lives in San Francisco but returns to his boyhood home in Louisiana once a year. |
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