A Lesson before Dying | Techniques
Gaines uses the Southern rural folk tradition, learned in his aunt's home in a plantation Quarter similar to Bayonne, to present the workings of this cultural system. "Gaines's novels link individuals to their social context with the explicit purpose of combating the alienation of capitalist and racist society," says Folks. Gaines tells us he is writing "for the Black youth of the South, to let them know that their lives are worth writing about, and maybe in that way I could help them find themselves . . . [and] for the White youth of the South to let them know that unless they know...
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