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Recomposing the Self: Joyful Shame in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 4, December 2016
- pp. 169-183
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a640857
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina is typically read as representative of the negative effects of trauma. This essay suggests that one’s shame can be used to recompose the shamed self, enabling one to (re)connect with others.
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