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11 ago 2012 · Miss Jane Pittman, a fictional character in the novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, dies in the year 1962. Though the exact date isn't specified in the book, the film adaptation...
Cicely Tyson as Jane Pittman, 1974. The book was made into an award-winning television movie, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , broadcast on CBS in 1974. The film holds importance as one of the first made-for-TV movies to deal with African-American characters with depth and sympathy.
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 259
- 1971
- 1971
A child at the end of the Civil War, Jane survives a massacre by former Confederate soldiers. She serves as a steadying influence for several black men who work hard to achieve dignity and economic as well as political equality. After the death of her husband, Joe Pittman, Jane becomes a committed Christian and a spiritual guide in her community.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Introduction. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman follows the life of one woman from her emancipation as a slave in the 1860s to her initiation into the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. A work of historical fiction, the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman takes place in rural Louisiana.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman begins with a note from the editor, who is a local schoolteacher near the plantation where Jane Pittman lives. He has long been trying to hear her story, and, beginning in the summer of 1962, she finally tells it to him.
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 1971
Key Facts. Previous. full titleThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. authorErnest J. Gaines. type of workNovel. genreAfrican-American novel; Southern novel; American modern novel. languageEnglish. time and place written1967–1970, southwestern Louisiana. date of first publication1971. publisherBantam Books.
The young Miss Jane Brown of the 1870s was at best an agnostic, and Miss Jane Pittman saw no need for a church marriage to Mr Joe Pittman in the 1890s—“We didn’t get married. I didn’t believe in the church then, and Joe never did.