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1. 1 2019-11-19T23:20:20+00:00 Cait Marshall 5aaeff6dd16a844b8418bf68332309f3ffdc4df4 Adaptation 32 The 1974 film adaptation contained several differences from the novel. This entry examines three major examples. image_header 2020-03-10T16:02:16+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
2. 1 media/St. Emma Plantation House.jpeg 2019-11-19T23:12:39+00:00 Melanie R. Johnson 2c9ba6fa07e0ce1284170f6de4ea920f41e3626c Community 28 The entire Samson Plantation community is implicated in Tee Bob’s tragic demise. This entry analyzes the shared beliefs and social dynamics that propel his story. image_header 2020-03-10T16:03:50+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
3. 1 media/Medium sized JPEG (1).jpg 2019-11-26T00:36:35+00:00 Jaleesa Harris eba4efd7d677e37f373ea422f78682da76b96d8b Creole 32 This entry offers a definition of Louisiana Creoles and explains their representation in the novel. image_header 189 2020-03-10T16:04:25+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
4. 1 2019-11-19T22:25:14+00:00 Nonah Cagney Palmer 9b89990d58ccaba7d4aa3c4af3dabcc7a93bf335 Diaspora 39 Although set in South Louisiana, Miss Jane’s experience of enslavement and plantation labor connects her to a broad African diaspora. image_header 2021-09-21T18:20:12+00:00 David Ryan Palmer David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
5. 1 media/Folder 6-23, Pg 1.jpg 2019-12-02T14:51:34+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674 Frame Story 15 The introduction to the novel informs the way readers understand Miss Jane Pittman. This entry explains how the unnamed editor frames her story. image_header 225 2020-12-07T15:50:07+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
6. 1 2019-11-19T23:56:59+00:00 Nonah Cagney Palmer 9b89990d58ccaba7d4aa3c4af3dabcc7a93bf335 Historical Realism 29 Is Miss Jane real? This entry explains how the inventive use of historical realism unsettles distinctions between history and fiction. image_header 2021-09-21T18:15:52+00:00 David Ryan Palmer David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
7. 1 media/Red candle.jpg 2019-11-26T00:58:48+00:00 Francisco Rodriguez 5a40fa29c7b5a2469c9fd41143537d2d876e7c0f Hoodoo 39 To save Joe Pittman, Miss Jane seeks help from hoodoo practitioner Madame Gautier. This entry explains how folk magic colors her perspective on fate. image_header 2020-03-10T16:10:08+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
8. 1 media/Interiority 2.jpg 2019-11-20T00:14:40+00:00 Meredith McKinnie 1284a69ec8b7207da7db2cfb500455b382ad6608 Interiority 34 Novels have given us a rich sense of subjective experience. This entry explores the extent to which Miss Jane participates in the tradition of dramatizing inner life. image_header 2020-03-10T16:11:22+00:00 Ernest J. Gaines Center at The University of Louisiana Lafayette David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
9. 1 media/Intersectionality 2.jpg 2019-11-19T23:13:13+00:00 Meredith McKinnie 1284a69ec8b7207da7db2cfb500455b382ad6608 Intersectionality 27 Intersectionality offers a way to understand social identity as a complex construction of overlapping categories. This entry draws on the concept to analyze Miss Jane’s experience in relation to two different white women. image_header 2020-03-10T16:12:09+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
10. 1 media/Miss Jane and Ned.jpg 2019-12-01T00:47:45+00:00 Aleya Washington bb23f453e4fdb56f291988fc1c3d9006858cec34 Mammy Trope 39 The mammy trope has a long history in American culture. This entry considers whether or not Miss Jane participates in the tradition. image_header 205 2020-03-10T16:12:53+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
11. 1 2019-11-19T23:08:59+00:00 Lillian King dcc87736c93dc79a223aaa8ae855be85116b365d Neo-Slave Narratives 31 Gaines led the vanguard of this new fiction genre when he wrote Miss Jane’s story. This entry tracks its development and Miss Jane’s relationship to actual slave narratives. image_header 2020-03-10T16:13:29+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
12. 1 2019-11-19T23:38:12+00:00 Kiley Brinkman 12ad1f33388ba1c1f9839b7446aa56cd4e97ef05 Reception 41 This entry explains how the novel took on a life of its own in the years following its publication, securing Gaines’s literary reputation in the process. image_header 2020-03-10T16:14:07+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
13. 1 media/A_Negro_camp_meeting_in_the_South_LCCN99614209.jpg 2019-11-26T01:10:48+00:00 Francisco Rodriguez 5a40fa29c7b5a2469c9fd41143537d2d876e7c0f Religion 19 Christianity held a fraught place in the institution of slavery, serving as both tool for oppression and impetus to liberation. This entry examines Miss Jane’s religious faith. image_header 2020-03-10T16:15:09+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
14. 1 media/5-71.png 2019-11-19T23:50:52+00:00 Anne-Julia Price 3b5fc3a3e57b7e09e5db707cc08dfcab69b518a2 Repetition 38 Repetition becomes a characteristic element of vernacular speech in the novel. This entry explores its various manifestations and implications. image_header 2020-03-10T16:15:40+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
15. 1 media/Halle Berry in Queen.jpg 2019-11-20T00:09:04+00:00 Melanie R. Johnson 2c9ba6fa07e0ce1284170f6de4ea920f41e3626c Tragic Mulatta Trope 22 The tragic mulatta trope has a long history in American literature and racial discourses more broadly. This entry considers Mary Agnes as an example from the novel. image_header 2020-03-10T16:16:39+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
16. 1 media/French Book-pages-Miss Jane.jpg 2019-11-23T20:53:03+00:00 Anne-Julia Price 3b5fc3a3e57b7e09e5db707cc08dfcab69b518a2 Translation 44 This entry discusses some of the challenges of translating Gaines’s writing, with a close look at French translation in particular. image_header 2020-03-10T16:17:13+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674
17. 1 media/Silenced Voices.jpg 2019-12-01T00:23:43+00:00 Aleya Washington bb23f453e4fdb56f291988fc1c3d9006858cec34 Voice 27 Critics celebrate Miss Jane for the sincerity of her voice. This entry, however, argues that literary voice must go beyond a manner of speech to express subjective authenticity. image_header 256 2020-03-10T16:18:20+00:00 David Squires c613f45970ae89ef70516076df94370392b06674