A Gathering of Old Men

Ernest J. Gaines

Suggestions for Further Reading

Auger, Philip. Native Sons in No Man's Land: Re-Writing Afro-American Manhood in the Novels of Bladwin, Walker, Wideman, and Gaines. New York: Garland Press, 2000.

Babb, Valerie Melissa. Ernest Gaines. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Beavers, Herman, "Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Labor, Memory, and Identity in Ernest J. Gaines's Of Love and Dust." Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Ethic Literatures. Edited by Amritgit Singh and Joseph Skerret, Jr. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.

Beavers, Herman. Wrestling Angels into Song: the Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

Carmean, Karen. Ernest J. Gaines: A Critical Companion. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Estes, David, ed. Critical Reflections on the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Gaudet, Marcia and Wooten, Carl. Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1990.

Jones, Suzanne W, "New Narratives of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Closure in Ernest Gaines's Fiction." The World is Our Culture: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing. Edited by Jeffrey J. Folks. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Lowe, John. Conversations with Ernest Gaines. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

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