![]() ![]() ![]() Allison discusses-with candor and quick wit-her upbringing, her work in a variety of modes (novels, short stories, essays, poetry), and her active participation in the women's movement of the 1970s. ![]() ![]() The interviews detail Allison's working-class background in Greenville, South Carolina, as the daughter of a waitress. In this collection, spanning almost two decades, Allison the performer and Allison the careful craftsperson both emerge, creating a portrait of a complex woman. Often called a "writer-rock star" and a "cult icon," Allison is a true performer of the written word.Īt the same time, Allison also takes the craft of writing very seriously. Allison has frequently used her position, through passionate lectures and enthusiastic interviews, to give voice to issues dear to her: poverty, working-class life, domestic violence, feminism and women's relationships, the contemporary South, and gay/lesbian life. 1949) has been known-as with Larry Brown and Lee Smith-as a purveyor of the "gritty" contemporary South that, in many ways, is worlds away from prevailing "Southern Gothic" representations of the region. Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison (b. ![]()
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