英文摘要 |
The lesbian-feminist author and incest survivor Dorothy Allison has written novels, poems, memoirs, essays and short stories, in which she describes the ordeal she suffered as a girl and how she survived. In all of Allison's works, the southern female body is a locus where the realities of gender and class are brutally inscribed. However, Allison reclaims this crushed body in works that testify to its resilience, strength and beauty. Drawing on studies of the grotesque and writings by feminist and trauma theorists, I propose to study the paradoxical allisonian body, which is constructed as inferior and unimportant by the larger community, but is celebrated by Allison as the bearer of a positive female identity. |