Abstract
This study examines the way in which class, race, sexual identity, but also, a history of abuse inform Dorothy Allison ’s work, be it her fiction or her essays, with a reflexive analysis of the strategies of domination, rejection or reification that may be at work in my own readings. The focus shifts from Allison ’s poor white consciousness, to her sexual identity as a transgressive lesbian, to a comparison of her fiction with Jim Grimsley’s, along the lines of portraying the child who is poor white, abused, and queer.
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