Calling, Naming, and Coming of Age in Ernest Gaines's “A Gathering of Old Men”
Abstract In his 1983 novel, A Gathering of old Men, Ernest Gaines deploys characters' names so as to point to their implications in a society in which social stratification based on color and race is the norm. He draws his readers' attention to the importance of names by the headings he us...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
1992-06-01
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| Series: | Names |
| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1322 |