The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by Ernest J. Gaines
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Civil War and Fiction.
Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines?s nowclassic novel?written as an autobiography?spans one hundred years of Miss Jane?s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantatio...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Civil War and Fiction.
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“For me it was the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, I would go back and forth between the book and the movie over and over. I can still hear her voice at the water fountain at the end...”
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