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The Ambiguous “They” in Ernest J. Gaines’s “The Sky is Gray”

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As we discussed Ernest J. Gaines’s “The Sky is Gray” during the NEH Summer Institute a couple of weeks ago, one of the participants, Dianna Shank, pointed out the ambivalent use of the pronoun “they” throughout the text. At first, this did not necessarily strike me as anything warranting further exploration since the narrative comes to us from the point of view of an … Read More The Ambiguous “They” in Ernest J. Gaines’s “The Sky is Gray”

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Langston Hughes’s "Home" and Ernest Hemingway

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The word “home” carries connotations of safety, security, and family; however, for Roy Williams in Langston Hughes’s “Home” (1933),  his return to Missouri presents him with a confrontation that ultimately leads to his death at the hands of the white townspeople. Today, I want to look at Hughes’s story in relation to Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” from In Our Time (1925). Both stories deal … Read More Langston Hughes’s "Home" and Ernest Hemingway

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NEH Summer Institute "Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience"

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I cannot tell you how excited I am to be a part of next year’s NEH Summer Institute, “Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience.” The Ernest J. Gaines Center, in conjunction with the National Endowment of the Humanities, will host the summer institute in June 2016. The summer institute is a culmination of three years of work on programs geared towards bringing the works of Ernest … Read More NEH Summer Institute "Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience"

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