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Story of a black lady born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, freed at the end of the Civil War, who lives for one-hundred more years
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Fiction, Older women, Louisiana in fiction, African American women, Older women in fiction, African American women in fiction, Fiction in English, Racism, Women slaves, Jane Pitman, African Americans, History, Social conditions, Literature, In literature, Louisiana, fiction, Fiction, historical, African americans, fiction, Collections, Reading comprehension, Literature and fiction, historical fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, generalShowing 7 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
2009, Bantam Dell
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- Dial Press trade pbk. ed.
0385342780 9780385342780
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: And Other Related Readings (Literature Connections)
June 1998, McDougal Littell
in English
0395869935 9780395869932
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Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1971.
Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace.
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"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
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