Gift Exchange as Communal Resistance in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying
This article examines the representation of gift exchange in Ernest Gaines’s novel, A Lesson Before Dying. Drawing upon sociological and anthropological theories of the gift, it argues that gift exchange among the black community in the fictional town of Bayonne provides a mechanism of resistance to...
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New York City College of Technology
2017-07-01
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| Series: | NANO |
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| Online Access: | https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue11/Gift-Exchange-as-Communal-Resistance-in-Ernest-Gaines-Lesson-Before-Dying |