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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"A Lesson before Dying"”.
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Resistance and Identity in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson Before Dying, and A Gathering of Old Men
… of Miss Jane Pittman<italic>, <italic>A Lesson Before Dying<italic>, and <italic>A Gathering of Old Men<italic>. For this purpose, I situate the author's focus on rural southern black communities as a way of establishing the importance of communal values, and more specifically, how these …
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Confronting Manhood: The Struggle of Male Characters in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines.
… <em>In My Father's House</em>, and <em>A Lesson before Dying</em> as examples of oppressed manhood, and the gradual acceptance of the characteristics of manhood in Black males. Chapter One focuses on <em>The Sky Is Gray</em> and follows the young hero as he makes his transition from child …
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Tracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fiction
… The Leaving); black aesthetics (Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying); cultural studies (M. E. Kerr’s Night Kites); and the application of several theories to Katherine Patterson’s Jacob Have I Loved. The concluding chapter sets the voices of theorists and teachers into conversations about the …