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A 5 page research paper/essay that examines the work of writer Dorothy Allison. The writer argues that Allison's feminism cannot be understood out of context form her lesbianism. These two topics are inseparable in Allison's writing because they are inseparable in her life. Looking at how Allison views herself as a feminist lesbian offers considerable insight into how her identity influences her life as a writer. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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(Graff, 1994, p. 10). She is also feminist, a famous one, and an outspoken and blunt lesbian. These two topics are inseparable in Allisons writing because they are inseparable in
her life. Looking at how Allison views herself as a feminist lesbian offers considerable insight into how her identity influences her life as a writer. Raised in the South,
Allison recounts in a 1995 interview how the voices of black women writers spoke to her in college in ways that she interpreted, not necessarily as black, but feminist. "Toni
Morrison, Alice Walker. When I found Zora Neale Hurston, it was like getting kicked in the butt" (Pratt, 1995, p. 30). Allison says that these voices were familiar, as they
represented the "speech, the rhythms of my family, the kinds of language that I grew up with" (Pratt, 1995, p. 30). The black women writers who influenced Allison fit
with a larger pattern of being drawn to those who are on the outskirts of conventional society. Allison explains in her interview that she came to see herself as a
sexual "transgressor." This identity as an "outlaw" drew her towards others who have also been perceived as "outlaws," i.e., "black civil-rights workers, white civil-rights workers, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilds in
England, every woman ever burned at the stake anywhere" (Pratt, 1995, p. 32). In her imagination, she forged a "clear link between where I belonged, who I belonged with" (Pratt,
1995, p. 32). She found herself emotionally clinging to the "edge of the world," so she naturally reached out to the people who were there "on the edge with me"
(Pratt, 1995, p. 22). As this suggests, one of Allisons principal talents is her ability to understand the complex nature of personal experience and to translate that into
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