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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
8,182 words, approx. 27 pages
 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
5,016 words, approx. 17 pages
 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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