作家朵拉思‧愛麗森身為女同性戀者與女性主義者，並從被繼父強暴的陰影中存活下來，她創作過小說、詩、回憶錄、散文及短篇小說，愛麗森在其中描述了孩童時代所經歷的折磨以及她如何走過這段過程。在她所有作品中，美國南方女性的身體成為一被性別與階級所粗暴銘刻的場域，但是愛麗森的書寫使她得以重拾此一破碎身體，並見證女性身體的堅韌、力量與美麗。本文援引詭態研究、女性主義書寫、及創傷理論，並探討矛盾的「愛麗森式」身體。雖然社會將其建構成次等而不重要的，卻被愛麗森頌讚為正面女性身份的承載體。

The lesbian-feminist author and incest survivor Dorothy Allison has written novels, poems, memoirs, essays and short stories, in which she describes the ordeal she suffered as a girl and how she survived. In all of Allison’s works, the southern female body is a locus where the realities of gender and class are brutally inscribed. However, Allison reclaims this crushed body in works that testify to its resilience, strength and beauty. Drawing on studies of the grotesque and writings by feminist and trauma theorists, I propose to study the paradoxical allisonian body, which is constructed as inferior and unimportant by the larger community, but is celebrated by Allison as the bearer of a positive female identity.