Challenging the Canon of Adolescent Literature: Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina.".

Darlington, Sonja R.

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Publication Date: 1996

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Challenging the Canon of Adolescent Literature: Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina."

Darlington, Sonja R.

ALAN Review, v24 n1 p24-27 Fall 1996

Suggests that Allison's novel "Bastard Out of Carolina" should join the list of works most frequently chosen for study in school. Notes that, as a narrator, Allison speaks clearly to the social and economic structures which disempower females. (RS)

Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Novels, Reading Material Selection, Secondary Education, Sex Discrimination, Social Status

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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