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Allison, "Bastard Out Of Carolina"
Analytical Essay # 22066
Allison, "Bastard Out Of Carolina"
Compares and contrasts several reviews of Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina". Also reviews autobiographical details of the life of Dorothy Allison as revealed in published interviews in order to contextualize the novel.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
9 sources |
1995
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"Dorothy Allison had published collections of poems (The Women Who Hate . . . Me), short stories (Trash), and essays (Skin). In 1992, she published her first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina. The book, set in Greenville County, South Carolina, in the 1950's, is the hard-hitting, often downright brutal story of the teenaged narrator, Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, the illegitimate daughter of Anney, who was poor, fifteen, and unmarried when Bone was born. The greatest shame in Anney's life was the stark red "ILLEGITIMATE" stamped across the bottom of Bone's birth certificate; she tries several times--and fails--to have the stamp removed from the record. Finally she marries a sweet young man, Lyle, and has a second daughter, Reese. Though they are poor, they are happy, and so when Lyle is suddenly ..."More papers on Allison, "Bastard Out Of Carolina":
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Allison, "Bastard Out Of Carolina" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Allison-Bastard-Out-Of-Carolina/22066
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"Allison, "Bastard Out Of Carolina"" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Allison-Bastard-Out-Of-Carolina/22066>
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