Critics have noted the language to be difficult to understand by viewers not familiar with the dialect and accent of the characters. The film culminates with Miss Pittman joining the civil rights movement in 1962 at age 110. It preceded the ground-breaking television miniseries Roots by three years. The film holds importance as one of the first made-for-TV movies to deal with African-American characters with depth and sympathy. The book was made into an award-winning television movie, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, broadcast on CBS in 1974.
Through these stories the novel further highlights the conditions of Louisiana sharecropping in relationship to the conditions of slavery. In the depiction of Miss Jane's telling of the story, Jim, the child of sharecroppers parallels if not resoundingly echoes the earlier story of Ned, the child born on a slave plantation. At the end of the chapter "A Flicker of Light And Again Darkness", Miss Jane remarks of Colonel Dye's plantation, "It was slavery again, all right". Between physical limitations, not having money, and having to deal with ambivalent and hostile figures, Jane and Ned's travels don't take them very far physically (they do not leave Louisiana) nor in lifestyle. Access to schools and political participation was shut down by plantation owners. It shows how the patrollers and other vigilante groups through violence and terror curtailed the physical and educational mobility of African Americans in the south. The novel shows how formerly enslaved people lived after freedom. The novel, which begins with a protagonist in slavery being freed and leaving the plantation only to return to another plantation as a sharecropper, stresses the similarities between the conditions of African Americans in slavery and African Americans in the sharecropping plantation. I read quite a few interviews performed with former slaves by the WPA during the thirties and I got their rhythm and how they said certain things. I did a lot of research in books to give some facts to what Miss Jane could talk about, but these are my creations. When Dial Press first sent it out, they did not put "a novel" on the galleys or on the dustjacket, so a lot of people had the feeling that it could have been real. Some people have asked me whether or not The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is fiction or nonfiction. You ought to been here when poor people had nothing.'" Because of the historical content, some readers thought the book was non-fiction. You ought to been here twenty-five, thirty years ago. When I hear them talk like that I think, 'Ha. Long in which Miss Jane explains "Oh, they got all kinds of stories about her now. For instance, an entire section is dedicated to Huey P. Corporal Brown's voice give these historical meditations a kind of "setting the record straight" mood to the storytelling presented in this novel. Washington, Jackie Robinson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, and others. Jane and other characters also mention Frederick Douglass, Booker T. In addition to its obvious opening in the American Civil War, Jane alludes to the Spanish–American War and her narrative spans across both World Wars and the beginning of the Vietnam War. In addition to the plethora of fictional characters who populate Jane's narrative, Jane and others make many references to historical events and figures over the close-to-a hundred years Miss Jane can recall. The novel, and its main character, are particularly notable for the breadth of time, history and stories they recall.
DIARY OF JANE MOVIE
The novel was dramatized in a TV movie in 1974, starring Cicely Tyson. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War. The story depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J.
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