Conversations with Dorothy Allison by Mae Miller Claxton

In the absence of a biography of Allison's life, Conversations with Dorothy Allison presents Allison's perspectives on her life, literature, and her conflicted role as a public figure. In this collection, spanning almost two decades, Allison the performer and Allison the careful craftsperson both emerge, creating a portrait of a complex woman. At the same time, Allison also takes the craft of writing very seriously. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). Often called a 'writer-rock star' and a 'cult icon,' Allison is a true performer of the written word. Conversations with Dorothy Allison by Mae Miller Claxton, 2012, University Press of Mississippi edition, in English. 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 working-class, contemporary South. The book offers ways to help twenty-first-century readers navigate Welty’s challenging and intricate narratives.Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (b. The essays collected in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty seek to move Welty beyond a discussion of region and reflect new scholarship that remaps her work onto a larger canvas. Welty was an innovative artist with cosmopolitan sensibilities and progressive politics, a woman who maintained close friendships with artists and intellectuals throughout the world, a writer as unafraid to experiment as she was to level her pen at the worst human foibles. Yet recent scholarship has amply demonstrated a richer complexity. Too often Eudora Welty is known to the general public as Miss Welty, a ＂perfect lady＂ who wrote affectionate portraits of her home region. Harrison, Casey Kayser, Michael Kreyling, Ebony Lumumba, Suzanne Marrs, Pearl Amelia McHaney, David McWhirter, Laura Sloan Patterson, Harriet Pollack, Gary Richards, Christin Marie Taylor, Annette Trefzer, Alec Valentine, Adrienne Akins Warfield, Keri Watson, and Amy Weldon

Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Kevin Eyster, Dolores Flores-Silva, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Brown, Lee Anne Bryan, Keith Cartwright, Stuart Christie, Mae Miller Claxton, Virginia Ottley Craighill, David A. 2013: : : Sex trafficking :best practices for assessment and intervention / Jennifer Davidtz, Caroline M. 2012: : : Framing sexual and domestic violence through language: Renate Klein. Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sharon Deykin Baris, Carolyn J. Conversations with Dorothy Allison: Mae Miller Claxton.