Voices from the quarters : the fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
著者
書誌事項
Voices from the quarters : the fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
(Southern literary studies)
Louisiana State University Press, 2003, c2002
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index
"Louisiana paperback edition, 2003" -- T. p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
「Nielsen BookData」 より