Voices from the Quarters : The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines (Southern Literary Studies)

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Voices from the Quarters : The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines (Southern Literary Studies)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780807129104
  • DDC分類 813.54

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

""Who 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. Gaines's fiction to date, the indelible characters who inhabit the author's lifelong inspirational territory: the bayous, cane fields, and plantation homes of Louisiana's Pointe Coupee Parish. Beginning with the author's upbringing and influences on River Lake plantation, amid the pecan trees and live oaks, the big house and the tenant quarters , this penetrating study offers close readings of Gaines's 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 Gaines's skill at translating oral tales into meaningful fictional forms, Doyle advances an original theory of first-person narration (""camcorder"") and traces its use throughout his work. Gaines's unwavering focus on the utterances of ""his people"" continually strengthens his artistic development, the voices of the early stories fusing with those of the later novels, until Gaines earns a unique magisterial ""voice,"" an implied author who is black but speaks to universals.

Using critical methods as eclectic as the book's intended audience, and drawing from on-site research and interviews with Gaines's relatives and friends, Doyle offers a variety of perspectives on Gaines's fiction and its world that resonates so powerfully. Those who recognise 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.