PANG Hao-nong Р Abstract: In The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines reconstructs the Р social history of blacks living at the bottom of American society from the perspectives of Р human dignity, human nature and self-realization, describing the rebuilding of black Р dignity and the loss of whites’ human nature. This novel is considered a kind of cultural Р poetics, which gives a footnote-like and political explanation of American blacks’ history, Р restoring the social facts reversed by formalism and old historicism while making a Р comprehensive depiction of black living conditions and ethnic relations from political Р 112