With his attention to storytelling techniques and the verisimilitude of his characters’ voices, Ernest J. Gaines has effectively captured the realities of rural African American life in his fiction. Through his use of regional dialect and tragicomedy, he offers insight into the world of a twentieth‐century American South still in need of change and African American men still in search of pride and justice.
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