You think a man can't kneel and stand

In the bayou country of Ernest J. Gaines's fiction, everyone has an opinion about the church. Indeed, although professional religious figures rarely play prominent roles in Gaines's stories, none of his works overlook the issue of religion and its impact on the African-American community. 1 Throughout most of his corpus, that impact is primarily negative, largely because of the consistent weakness of the preachers who minister to the communities Gaines portrays. From Reverend Armstrong in Catherine Carmier (1964) to Reverend Jameson in A Gathering of Old Men (1983), Gaines's ministers preach an adherence to Christ and a concomitant social passivity that ultimately proves unacceptable

Political science · Sociology · Theology · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society

• In Struggle

  Francis M Wilhoit, Clayborne Carson•The American Historical Review•1981

  Incluir item

• The Black Church in the African American Experience

  C Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H Mamiya•Black Church in the African…•1990

  Incluir item

• Fingering the Jagged Grain

  Susan L Blake, Keith Byerman et al.•South Atlantic Review•1987

  Incluir item

• Ernest Gaines' Materials

  Mary Ellen Doyle•MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…•1988

  Incluir item

• Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines

  Mary Ellen Doyle, Marcia Gaudet et al.•MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…•1994

  Incluir item

• A Melus Interview

  Mary Ellen Doyle, Ernest J Gaines•MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…•1984

  Incluir item

• Bearing the Cross

  David Herbert Donald, David Donald et al.•The Journal of Southern History•1988

  Incluir item

• The Sermon and the African American Literary Imagination

  Maxine D Jones, Dolan Hubbard•The Journal of Southern History•1996

  Incluir item

• A Gathering of Old Men

  Ernest J Gaines, Ernest Gaines•The Black Scholar•1983

  Incluir item

• Conversations with Ernest Gaines

  Valerie Babb, John B Lowe et al.•African American Review•1998

  Incluir item

• His Feet on your Neck

  Lee Papa•African American Review•1993

  Incluir item

• Talking With Ernest J. Gaines

  Marcia Gaudet, Carl Wooton•Callaloo•1988

  Incluir item