Societal impositions and the black male as seen in three novels by Ernest Gaines

This work examines methods used by young Black males dealing with societal impositions (i.e. racial oppression, paternal rejection, mis—education, abandonment, and imprisonment) as seen in Ernest Gaines’ novels Of Love and Dust (1967), In My Father’s House (1978), and a Lesson Before Dying (1993). T...

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Main Author: Williams, Julian L.
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center 1995
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/457
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