Feminist critics’’have often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, ’’ as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists’’ predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other. According to the passage, early American parishioners held which of the following views concerning parish demography
A．Migration between towns stands in direct contrast with the accumulation of population in cities. B．Parish populations would grow at fairly equal rates, given the fact that those who left a parish in response to life course events were usually replaced. C．Migration between parishes was a rare enough phenomenon that it was unnecessary to keep records of it in any fashion. D．Parish populations often chose to remain sedimentary as a result of the homogeneity of the various countryside parishes. E．Parish populations owed their existence on the whole to the influx of populations due to life course events.