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A Promise Song: Ernest J. Gaines's Early Fictions and the Community of Black Women Writing

Lucy Biederman

pp. 1-15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0001

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Onward Christian Soldier: Reverend Phillip Martin's Road to Redemption in Ernest J. Gaines's In My Father's House

Lillie Anne Brown

pp. 17-31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0002

No Exit: Mixed-Race Characters and the Racial Binary in Charles Chesnutt and Ernest J. Gaines

Keith Byerman

pp. 33-48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0003

"But I was a little boy, and what could I do about it?": Contemplating Children as Narrators in the Short Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

Alexis M. Egan

pp. 49-60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0004

"Make Him a Man": Black Masculinity and Communal Identity in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying

David E. Magill

pp. 61-76

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0005

Reading Ivan Turgenev with Ernest J. Gaines: Analyzing Fathers and Sons and Catherine Carmier

Claire Manes

pp. 77-92

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0006

"Whitemouth": A Bakhtinian Reading of Narrative Voice in Ernest J. Gaines's Transitional Novel Of Love and Dust

Diane Chiriani Russo

pp. 93-111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0007

"They want us to be Creoles. . . . There is no in-between": Creole Representations in Ernest J. Gaines's Catherine Carmier and Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers

Matthew Teutsch

pp. 113-127

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0008

"Mr. Joe Louis, help me": Sports as Narrative and Community in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying

Michael Zeitler

pp. 129-140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0009

Introduction: New Criticisms on the Works of Ernest J. Gaines

Lillie Anne Brown

pp. v-xii

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0000

Contributors

pp. 141-142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0010

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A Promise Song: Ernest J. Gaines's Early Fictions and the Community of Black Women Writing

Onward Christian Soldier: Reverend Phillip Martin's Road to Redemption in Ernest J. Gaines's In My Father's House

No Exit: Mixed-Race Characters and the Racial Binary in Charles Chesnutt and Ernest J. Gaines

"But I was a little boy, and what could I do about it?": Contemplating Children as Narrators in the Short Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

"Make Him a Man": Black Masculinity and Communal Identity in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying

Reading Ivan Turgenev with Ernest J. Gaines: Analyzing Fathers and Sons and Catherine Carmier

"Whitemouth": A Bakhtinian Reading of Narrative Voice in Ernest J. Gaines's Transitional Novel Of Love and Dust

"They want us to be Creoles. . . . There is no in-between": Creole Representations in Ernest J. Gaines's Catherine Carmier and Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers

"Mr. Joe Louis, help me": Sports as Narrative and Community in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying

Introduction: New Criticisms on the Works of Ernest J. Gaines

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