Dorothy Allison and Eli Clare: Creating Counter-Discourse and Shaping the Body as Home in the Life-Narrative

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2011
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Haverford College. Department of English
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This project considers the role of discourse in the life-narratives of Dorothy Allison and Eli Clare, two authors who identify as queer authors from rural, white, working-class backgrounds. I argue that Allison and Clare use the life-narrative to locate and create a home for themselves in a world where there are many forces that are hostile to the understanding of identity and experience as complex and dynamic.
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