A Lesson Before Dying or a Lesson for Living? How One Nine-Page Chapter, in Ernest J. Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying, Connected the Lines Between Life, Death, and Everything in Between
abstract: This thesis focuses on the nine-page diary present in Ernest J. Gaines’, A Lesson Before Dying. The diary is the only real form of communication from Jefferson, a young African American man who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. After being stripped of his manhood while...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53802 |