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Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

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Name: Dorothy Allison
Birth Date: April 11, 1949
Place of Birth: Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Gender: Female
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Dorothy Allison
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"The life and writing of Dorothy Allison illustrate her firm commitment to the two 'outlaw' cultures with which she identifies," wrote a critic for Contemporary Southern Writers, "her 'white trash' South Carolina family, a nd her sexually daring (and non...


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Bastard Out of Carolina (novel) novel by Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina (film) film based on the...


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Newsweek
Bastard Out of Carolina.
12/16/1996: 539 words, approx. 2 pages
An embattled movie's Southern Gothic horror THE NARRATOR OF DOROTHY allison's 1992 novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, is a little girl named Bone whose mother makes it her mission to erase the "illegitimate" stamp from her daughter's birth certificate. Appropriately, the TV version...
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The Nation
Bastard Out of Carolina. (book reviews)
12/28/1992: 1,416 words, approx. 5 pages
Flannery O'Connor once observed of the "Southern School" of writing, in an essay called "The Fiction Writer and His Country," that "more often the term conjures up an image of Gothic monstrosities and the idea of a preoccupation with everything deformed and grotesque. Most...
 


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Critical Essay by Vincent King
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In the following essay, King explores the postmodern and feminist aspects of Bastard Out of Carolina.
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Critical Essay by Katrina Irving
6,674 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Irving analyzes Bastard Out of Carolina in relation to the conventional realist style versus the genre of “accepted” lesbian literature.
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Critical Essay by Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon
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In the following essay, Donlon examines the significance of the front porch as a symbol of privacy and escape in Bastard Out of Carolina.
 


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Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

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