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Peau: A propos de sexe, de classe et de littérature

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Activiste féministe lesbienne radicale depuis les années 1970, Dorothy Allison a connu le succès avec ses romans (L'Histoire de Bone, Retour à Cayro). En 1994, elle publie Peau, un recueil d'essais. Elle y parle de son enfance, d'inceste, de lesbophobie. Elle raconte son engagement féministe, sa sexualité, les « Sex Wars » des années 1980. Elle partage ses réflexions sur la littérature : comment écrire l'extrême misère sociale, comment écrire sur le sexe ? Un livre tout à la fois intime, décapant et profondément politique, réédité avec sept textes inédits en français.

320 pages, Pocket Book

Published October 4, 2023

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Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison was an American writer whose work confronted class struggle, poverty, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, lesbian identity, and family violence. A self-identified femme lesbian, she drew extensively on her own experiences, transforming painful memories into fiction, poetry, and essays. Raised in a poor family in South Carolina and Florida, Allison found refuge in education and became the first member of her family to graduate from high school. She studied anthropology at Florida Presbyterian College and later earned a master's degree in urban anthropology from the New School for Social Research. Before establishing herself as a writer, she held numerous jobs and edited the feminist magazine Amazing Grace. Her first poetry collection, The Women Who Hate Me, appeared in 1983, followed by Trash in 1988. Her acclaimed novel Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), a finalist for the National Book Award, brought her widespread recognition and was later adapted into a controversial television film. Allison also wrote Cavedweller and published further collections of poetry and short stories. She founded the Independent Spirit Award in 1998 to support writers associated with small presses and independent bookstores. Her writing was influenced by authors including Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, and Judy Grahn. Allison was active in feminist and lesbian communities and advocated for safer sex. She and Jo Arnone cofounded the Lesbian Sex Mafia in 1981. Her honors included Lambda Literary Awards, the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. She was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers and received the Trailblazer Award from the Golden Crown Literary Society. In later years, Allison lived in California with her partner, Alix Layman, and her son, Wolf Michael. She was working on the unfinished novel She Who when Layman died in 2022. Allison died of cancer in 2024, leaving a body of work that made marginalized experiences central to American literature and queer literary culture, and became an influential literary voice.

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January 8, 2025
"Aucune femme n'est libre tant qu'elle n'est pas libre d'être lesbienne"

bravo les lesbiennes
334 reviews2 followers
May 21, 2025
J’ai eu des ressentis totalement disparates sur cette lecture. Les récits autour de sa famille, et son milieu précaire était à la hauteur de mes attentes, avec une plume presque hypnotisante. Malheureusement, le reste de ces écrits sur le milieu queer et notamment sa sexualité m’a beaucoup moins touché, presque repoussé, non pas en tant que jugement sur sa vie, puisque ces paroles sont nécessaires, mais de manière viscérale et personnelle.
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122 reviews1 follower
July 11, 2026
Excellent livre !! Je me suis clairement pas reconnue dans tout, notamment le fait qu'aux yeux de l'autrice je serais sûrement une lesbienne théorique vu que j'aime pas le sexe et qu'à mon humble avis c'est pas du tout quelque chose qui joue dans l'identité de quelqu'un notamment dans la commu queer mais bon... Je me dis que c'est des textes qui ont 40-50 ans et que c'est hyper important d'en parler même si maintenant ça a beaucoup changé.
Les passages où elle parle de sa vie de famille et de sa vie en communauté étaient vraiment superbes, celui du déménagement en particulier me reste en tête ❤️
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August 9, 2025
touchant, témoignage historique et personnel, et qui amène à réfléchir, merci dorothy <3
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