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. The passage provides information that answers which of the following questions
A．In what tradition do feminist critics usually place Dorothy Allison B．What are the main themes found in the fiction of Dorothy Allison’’s post-modern contemporaries C．What political values does Allison attempt to address through her fiction D．What views does Allison hold concerning the production of narratives of the commonplace in women’’s literature E．How was the development of Allison’’s fiction affected by the arrogance of modernist essentialism