“BUT I WAS A LITTLE BOY, AND WHAT COULD I DO ABOUT IT?”: CONTEMPLATING CHILDREN AS NARRATORS IN THE SHORT FICTION OF ERNEST J. GAINES.

GAINES, Ernest J., 1933-2019; FICTION writing techniques; NARRATORS; ADOLESCENCE; YOUNG adult literature

The article explore the response to the author's use of first-person child narrators in the short fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. Topics discussed include his concept of using first-person narrator; challenges on how the pre-pubescent and adolescent narrators treated; and focuses primarily on adolescence, teenage subjects, and young adult literature.