Tainted by (White) Trash: Class, Respectability and the Language of Waste in Dorothy Allison and Bonnie Jo Campbell

This article addresses the depiction of class, whiteness, dirt and respectability in the short stories “Meanest Woman Ever Left Tennessee”, by Dorothy Allison, and “Boar Taint”, by Bonnie Jo Campbell, from the perspective of waste studies and whiteness studies. Characters in these stories erect dis...

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Main Author: Sara Villamarin-Freire
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Zaragoza 2025-06-01
Series:Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
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Online Access:https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/10514
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