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Cherie Quarters : The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines /

"Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ernest J. Gaines. In clear and vivid...

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Autor principal: Laney, Ruth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The last one left: the autobiographer of Miss Jane Pittman -- I wanted to read about the South: becoming a writer -- The house and the school: writer in residence -- The relationship I dreamed of: getting married, coming home -- Everybody was everybody's child: the people of Cherie quarters -- Gone back in time: the houses of Cherie quarters -- Of love and dust: daily life in Cherie quarters -- The big house: the ruling families of River Lake plantation -- Time is the enemy: the friends of Cherie quarters. 
520 |a "Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ernest J. Gaines. In clear and vivid prose, this original and vital book illuminates the birthplace of a preeminent Black author and the lives of the people who inspired his work. Before he became an award-winning writer, Gaines was the son of sharecroppers in Cherie Quarters, the workers' community of River Lake Plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Drawing on decades of interviews and archival research, Ruth Laney explores the lives and histories of the families, both kin and not, who lived in a place where "everybody was everybody's child." Built as slave cabins in the 1840s, the houses of Cherie Quarters were cold in winter, hot in summer, filled with mosquitoes, and overflowing with people. Even so, the residents made these houses into homes. Laney describes aspects of their daily lives-work, food, entertainment, religion, and education-then expands her focus to the white families who built River Lake Plantation, enslaved its people, and later directed the lives of its Black sharecroppers. The twenty-first century saw the demise of Cherie Quarters. Like many landmarks of Black American life and history, the few remaining structures were razed or fell into ruin. Laney recounts the ultimately unsuccessful efforts of a small, dedicated group to preserve the vestiges of the community-two slave cabins, the church/schoolhouse, and a shed. Engaging and rich in detail, Cherie Quarters highlights the voices of those who called this special place home and shares the story of a lost way of life in South Louisiana"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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