Curriculum as a Place of Turmoil
Deconstructing the Anguish in Walker Percy's Feliciana and Ernest Gaines' Pointe Coupee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12010029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Slattery (0000-0002-6083-378X, Ashland University), Kevin Daigle (Lamar University) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 437-461 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03626784.1994.11075435 |
| OpenAlex | W1977373777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
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
Anguish · Curriculum · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · American Literature and Humor Studies · American Sports and Literature · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |