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Dolourou SORO.

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This study presents A Lesson Before Dying as a Marxist work insofar as the fictional society that it depicts explores all the significant characteristics of capitalist societies. Laying bare class division in St Raphael parish, it reveals the existence of a bourgeois class made up of wealthy landlords and authorities at the head of local institutions on the one hand, and a proletarian class, the black community, which is actually its working class. Eventually, the study reveals that, in a purely Marxist perspective, the base of this society is the plantation economy which generates a specific superstructure. Mainly established to defend the interests of landowners, this superstructure is displayed through a biased judiciary system, through repressive and ideological apparatuses that seek to reinforce blacks’ subservience, but equally through individuals whose activity consists in defending the labor ideology.

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