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Kathy Acker : punk writer /

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"This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism and feminism, critiques and exemplifies late twentieth-century capitalism. There is no female or feminist writer like Ka...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, Margaret A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Series:Interdisciplinary research in gender.
Subjects:
Acker, Kathy, > 1948-1997 > Criticism and interpretation.
Acker, Kathy, > 1948-1997.
Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism.
Experimental fiction, American > History and criticism.
Punk culture in literature.
Capitalism and literature.
Feminism in literature.
Experimental fiction, American.
Feminist fiction, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The fin-de-siècle punk writer : the sense and non-sense of revolt
  • Contexts and configurations of Acker. Acker's punk times : the scenes and sounds of punk writing
  • The punk writer emerges : from counterculture to punk culture
  • The punk intellectual : repossessing the European avant-garde
  • The punk feminist novelist : making the novel of cruelty and excess
  • Acker's punk tropology. Heterosexual desire : Blood and guts in high school (1978)
  • The family : Great expectations (1982)
  • The polity : Don Quixote : which was a dream (1986)
  • The economy : Empire of the senseless (1988)
  • Conclusion: What Kathy did.