Dorothy Allison
Biographic Data
| ID | 4014326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Allison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Allison |
| SIGNATURE | ALLISON D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
River of Names
At a picnic at my aunt’s farm, the only time the whole family ever gathered, my sister Billie and I chased chickens into the barn. Billie ran right through the open doors and out again, but I stopped, caught by a shadow moving over me. My cousin, Tommy, eight years old as I was, swung in the sunlight with his face as black as his shoes—the rope around his neck pulled up into the sunlit heights of the barn, fascinating, horrible. Wasn’t he running…
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding…
Bastard Out of Carolina
This is the twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author. About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for. (The New York Times Book Review). in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all, w…
Telling a Mean Story
Telling a Mean Story
Bastard Out of Carolina
This is the twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author. About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for. (The New York Times Book Review). in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all, w…
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding…
River of Names
At a picnic at my aunt’s farm, the only time the whole family ever gathered, my sister Billie and I chased chickens into the barn. Billie ran right through the open doors and out again, but I stopped, caught by a shadow moving over me. My cousin, Tommy, eight years old as I was, swung in the sunlight with his face as black as his shoes—the rope around his neck pulled up into the sunlit heights of the barn, fascinating, horrible. Wasn’t he running…
Geography (2 works) · American Literature and Culture (1 works) · Educational Leadership and Practices (1 works) · Jungian Analytical Psychology (1 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (1 works) · Medicine (1 works) · Political science (1 works) · Psychology (1 works) · Race, History, and American Society (1 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (1 works)