Skin
Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
A collection of critical essays from award-winning author Dorothy Allison about identity, gender politics, and queer theory, now with a new prefaceLambda Award and American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through twenty-three impassioned essays that explore her identity-from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York-and her sexuality. In Gun Crazy, Allison delves into what guns meant to the men and women around her when she…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4804-2660-3
- EAN: 9781480426603
- Produktnummer: 19299413
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 261 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'249 KB
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Dorothy Allison is a bestselling author of novels, short stories, and poetry, including Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Trash: Short Stories, and The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990. In 1995, Allison's essay collection, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature, was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Studies and the American Library Association Stonewall Award. Allison received multiple Lambda Literary Awards for Trash and Cavedweller, and Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award for Bastard Out of Carolina, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the basis for the film of the same name. Allison has been the subject of many profiles and a short documentary film of her life, entitled Two or Three Things but Nothing for Sure. She lives in California with her partner and their son.
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