Bryant, Dorothy
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1930-2017) US teacher, playwright and author, who also gave her name as D M Bryant in the original version of her Feminist Utopia The Comforter: A Mystical Fantasy (1971; vt The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You 1976). The narrative itself hovers Equipoisally between something like the "real" world, where it is possible that a radically dream-dominated society might survive on an unknown Island, and the almost allegorical intensity of the lessons there bestowed on a deeply guilty, deeply aggressive entrepreneur, who has been translated there to learn how to become human. The nonfantastic Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-li Murrow (1986) describes an Edenic ideal community within what is intended to be understood as an historical context. [JC]
Dorothy Mae Calvetti Bryant
born San Francisco, California: 8 February 1930
died Oakland, California: 21 December 2017
works (highly selected)
- The Comforter: A Mystical Fantasy (Berkeley, California: Evan Press, 1971) as D M Bryant [pb/]
- The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (New York: Random House/Moon Books, 1976) [vt of the above: hb/Edidt Geever]
- Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-li Murrow (Berkeley, California: Ata Books, 1986) [pb/]
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