Abstract

The protagonist in Ernest Gaines' novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a former enslaved woman living in the fictional Louisiana city of Bayonne. Like most of Gaines' novels, the setting is suggestive of the author's childhood home in the Louisiana parish of Pointe Coupee. In the novel, Jane Pittman reminisces on her life as an enslaved child on a Louisiana antebellum plantation, as a free woman during reconstruction in the South, and as a black woman during the civil rights movement. As she approaches the age of 108, Jane reflects on the significance of rivers:

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