Bastard Out of Carolina | Literary Precedents
Hailed by George Garrett in the New York Times Book Review as "a major new talent," Allison's Bastard out of Carolina can be compared to the work of several authors. In Contemporary Literature, Horvitz compares it to Gayl Jones's Corregidora. Horvitz focuses on "the complex, commingled relationships between sexual trauma, its repression, and its potential healing through narration/narrative" present in both texts. Comparing Bone and Ursa, saying that both are in slavery, Horvitz continues, "both novels emphasize the crucial need to understand and integrate...
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