![]() 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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