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Titre : VALORIZING BLACK WOMEN IN ERNEST J. GAINES’ A LESSON BEFORE DYING

Auteur.e.s : Emmanuel N’Depo BEDA , .

Résumé :
This paper aims at showing how Black women in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying through their unflinching love, moral leadership and sustained persistence craft Grant and Jefferson. Through Patricia Hill Collins’s feminist theoretical framework particularly her concept of self- definition in Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, this paper explores how women self-defined identities contribute not only to their own self-worth but also to the reconfiguration of Grant’s selfhood and renovation of Jefferson’s splintered self. The outcomes of my study reveal that through women’s actions and behavior, Gaines reconceptualizes resistance, love and heroism as interrelated practices of care, resilience and dignity.