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A review by booksbythecup
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
“After you been round things so many years you get to be like them or they get to be like you. Exactly which way it works I ain’t figured it out yet. Probably never will.” —The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines
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Regrettably, this book sat on my shelf unread for many years, but back in February I decided to change that. When I started reading this it felt familiar in the way like I have read it before.
There is something about Miss Jane that felt like a walking and talking trip into the past reaching back over 100 years to trace back the story that could easily outline a narrative of my great-grandmother. Placing myself in the newness of something many had dreamed of, but never lived to see. Emancipation and what 'freedom' looked like and what it cost ao many who endeavored to forge a path of change, even at great cost to themselves and others.
Freedom at the age of no more than 10 or 12 years old, to have laid claim to something of her own, her very own name, Jane, and being beaten because of it.
When I read Gaines, I'm always impressed by his story telling, an oral history, that's allowed to take shape & expand in our imagination. That was my experience with Miss Jane Pittman.
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Regrettably, this book sat on my shelf unread for many years, but back in February I decided to change that. When I started reading this it felt familiar in the way like I have read it before.
There is something about Miss Jane that felt like a walking and talking trip into the past reaching back over 100 years to trace back the story that could easily outline a narrative of my great-grandmother. Placing myself in the newness of something many had dreamed of, but never lived to see. Emancipation and what 'freedom' looked like and what it cost ao many who endeavored to forge a path of change, even at great cost to themselves and others.
Freedom at the age of no more than 10 or 12 years old, to have laid claim to something of her own, her very own name, Jane, and being beaten because of it.
When I read Gaines, I'm always impressed by his story telling, an oral history, that's allowed to take shape & expand in our imagination. That was my experience with Miss Jane Pittman.
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