You think a man can't kneel and stand
Ernest J. Gaines's Reassessment of Religion as Positive Communal Influence In A Lesson Before Dying
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3370144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William R Nash (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 346-362 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Callaloo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-2492 • E-ISSN: 1080-6512 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cal.2001.0050 |
| OpenAlex | W2049343126 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
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
The Black Church in the African American Experience
Fingering the Jagged Grain
Ernest Gaines' Materials
Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines
A Melus Interview
Bearing the Cross
The Sermon and the African American Literary Imagination
A Gathering of Old Men
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
His Feet on your Neck
Talking With Ernest J. Gaines
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |