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1. www.independent.co.uk › news › obituariesErnest J Gaines: Novelist who tackled racial injustice with ...

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   The novelist Ernest J Gaines drew acclaim and comparisons to Dickens and Faulkner for his richly textured tales of racial injustice in rural Louisiana, including The Autobiography of Miss...

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2. literariness.org › 2020/10/07 › critical-analysis-ofCritical Analysis of Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying

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   Oct 7, 2020 · Furnished with the apparatus of American ‘‘justice,’’ Jefferson’s trial looks like any other, with his court-appointed defense attorney, prosecutor, jury, and judge—all white and all male. And the conduct of the trial contains some revealing practices, especially on the part of Jefferson’s lawyer.

3. www.braf.org › stories › an-interview-with-the-lateAn Interview with the late Ernest J. Gaines from 2007

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   Nov 5, 2019 · Ernest J. Gaines died Nov. 5, 2019, in Oscar, Louisiana. He was born into a family that picked cotton on land along False River. He became among the greatest writers of his generation.

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   A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana, in 1946. [1]

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5. www.britannica.com › biography › Ernest-J-GainesErnest J. Gaines | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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   Ernest J. Gaines, American writer whose fiction, as exemplified by The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) and A Lesson Before Dying (1993), reflects the African American experience and the oral tradition of his rural Louisiana childhood. Learn more about Gaines’s life and work.

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6. www.telegraph.co.uk › books › authorsWhy Ernest J Gaines is literature’s best-kept secret

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   Dec 30, 2023 · In a life-affirming and emotionally nuanced take on what it means to be black on the bayou, Gaines’s marginalised protagonists heroically strive to reclaim their traduced self-worth by helping...

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   What does Ernest Gaines write about?

   • Gaines, however, shifts reader attention from epic action to domestic. Focusing on the ordinary, he points readers toward the extraordinary acts of courage required of those willing to remain in place to fight for change. The social revolutions Ernest Gaines writes about are individual and yet representative.

   Critical Analysis of Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying

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   Is Gaines a good book?

   • These novels are harrowing, certainly, often tragic and doleful, yet Gaines’s prose – in its ability to capture people’s fortitude and forbearance, their pugnacious assertion of agency in the face of existential threat – is ultimately uplifting.

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   Does Ernest Gaines have a feminine theme?

   • September 23, 2014: Ernest Gaines at his home library in Oscar, Louisianna. (Paul Kieu, The Advertiser) Given Gaines’s focus on male characters and his recurring theme of manhood, the feminine element of his novels might easily be overlooked.

   Critical Analysis of Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying

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   How does Gaines explain'separate but equal'?

   • Gaines plays on the legal justification of ‘‘separate but equal,’’ exposing its inequities in one of the novel’s strongest scenes, when the school superintendent arrives for his annual visit. Grant will point out that Dr. Joseph Morgan visits the black schools only once each year while visiting the white schools twice.

   Critical Analysis of Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying

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   What are the social revolutions Ernest Gaines writes about?

   • The social revolutions Ernest Gaines writes about are individual and yet representative. At the very center of these revolutions are female characters who, like boulders, remain firm and immovable. From them emanate the moral actions his male characters reluctantly assume. Babb, Valerie Melissa. Ernest Gaines. Boston: Twain, 1991. Bevers, Herman.

   Critical Analysis of Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying

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   How does Gaines present Jefferson's character?

   • Gaines presents us with a hurt, inarticulate character absorbed in his own pain. Readers begin to witness Jefferson’s changing attitude, though, when he agrees to Grant’s suggestion that he show Emma respect by eating her food. But it’s his diary that most fully brings to life Jefferson’s character.

   Critical Analysis of Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying

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8. www.essence.com › celebrity › ernest-j-gaines-deadAward-Winning Novelist Ernest J. Gaines Dead At 86 - Essence

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   Dec 6, 2020 · Gaines, who penned 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman', passed away in his sleep of cardiac arrest at his home in Louisiana.