Category: southern literature

+ a long day in november, african american literature, american literature, araby, dubliners, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, irish literature, james joyce, southern literature

James Joyce’s "Dubliners" and Ernest J. Gaines

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Last week, I led a discussion on the influence that James Joyce had on Ernest J. Gaines. I have written about this before, briefly, on the Ernest J. Gaines Center’s blog. There, I wrote about the reference to Joyce in Gaines’s A Lesson before Dying. Throughout his career, Gaines has espoused the ways that authors like Joyce provided models for his own writing. He … Read More James Joyce’s "Dubliners" and Ernest J. Gaines

+ carson mccullers, cousin lymon, edgar allan poe, gothic literature, hop-frog, southern literature, the ballad of the sad cafe

Carson McCullers’s "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"

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As I read Carson McCuller’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, my mind kept going back to Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Orangoutangs.” On the surface, it may not appear that these two stories have much, if anything, in common. However, I would argue that a deeper examination of the stories in relation to another shows that they have some … Read More Carson McCullers’s "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"

+ african american literature, american literature, eris salius, ernest j gaines, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, southern literature, the autobiography of miss jane pittman

Erin Salius’s Article on "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"

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At the first ever Ernest J. Gaines Society panel last May, Erin Salius presented “Rethinking Historical Realism in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” Recently, the essay, in its entirety, appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Callaloo. Today, I would just like to briefly discuss Salius’s “Rethinking Historical Realism: Catholicism and Spirit Possession in Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” Salius’s … Read More Erin Salius’s Article on "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"

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