Robbing the Fire of Knowledge in a Leftist Perspective

Dr. GOURÉ Bi Boli dit Lama Berté

Numéro 12 (2016-2017) – Regards croisés sur les figures du feu (2017) Page(s) 105 - 115 ISSN 2076-6130

Against a backdrop of racism, the South willingly maintains his citizens of color in the darkness of ignorance by perpetuating a poor school system. In a social perspective, our analysis shows the topicality of the issue of education in Gaines’ fiction namely in A Lesson before Dying. He invites his people to a constructive action that will break the vicious circle of ignorance. In a historicist fiction which situates him in the African American literary tradition of social writing, he exhorts the black leadership to abandon their resignation and cynicism.

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Dr. GOURÉ Bi Boli dit Lama Berté. « Robbing the Fire of Knowledge in a Leftist Perspective ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 12, 2017, p. 105. ISSN 2076-6130.