Critical Thesis*
Read my critical thesis.
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*Please note that this was written in 2001, so some of the MLA sources could not be updated as they were no longer
available to me.
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“What’s your name? Who’s your daddy? Is he rich like me? Identity, class, and the legitimacy of
the poor white writer in Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison.”
This study of the novel, Bastard out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison examines Allison’s main
character, Bone, a young girl who transcends the powerlessness of class and illegitimacy to claim
her identity. In addition, it focuses on issues of class in America, in particularly, the effects of
being poor and white, white trash stereotypes, and the problems that poor white writers as a
marginalized group face when they use their own themes and language to claim their literary
birthright.
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