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The Resource Kathy Acker : punk writer, Margaret Henderson

Kathy Acker : punk writer, Margaret Henderson

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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 Kathy Acker (and probably no male either). Her body of work-nine novels, novellas, essays, reviews, poetry, and film scripts, published in a period spanning the 1970s to the mid-1990s-is the most developed body of contemporary feminist postmodernist work and of the punk aesthetic in a literary form. Twenty years after her death, Kathy Acker: Punk Writer gives a detailed and comprehensive analysis of how Acker melds the philosophy and poetics of the European avant-garde with the vernacular and ethos of her punk subculture to voice an idiosyncratic feminist radical politics in literary form: a punk feminism. With its aesthetics of shock, transgression, parody, Debordian détournement, caricature, and montage, her oeuvre reimagines the fin-de-siècle United States as a schlock horror film for her punk girl protagonist: Acker's cipher for herself and other rebellious and nonconformist women. This approach will allow the reader to more fully understand Acker, as a writer who inhabits an explosive and creative nexus of contemporary women's writing, punk culture, and punk feminism's reimagining of late capitalism. This vital work will be an important text at both undergraduate and graduate levels in Gender and Women's Studies, Postmodern Studies and twentieth-century American literature. Margaret"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
viii, 196 pages
Note
Actually published in 2020
Contents
  • Introduction: The fin-de-siècle punk writer : the sense and non-sense of revolt
  • Contexts and configurations of Acker. 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
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9781138296282
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Kathy Acker : punk writer
Title
Kathy Acker
Title remainder
punk writer
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Margaret Henderson
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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 Kathy Acker (and probably no male either). Her body of work-nine novels, novellas, essays, reviews, poetry, and film scripts, published in a period spanning the 1970s to the mid-1990s-is the most developed body of contemporary feminist postmodernist work and of the punk aesthetic in a literary form. Twenty years after her death, Kathy Acker: Punk Writer gives a detailed and comprehensive analysis of how Acker melds the philosophy and poetics of the European avant-garde with the vernacular and ethos of her punk subculture to voice an idiosyncratic feminist radical politics in literary form: a punk feminism. With its aesthetics of shock, transgression, parody, Debordian détournement, caricature, and montage, her oeuvre reimagines the fin-de-siècle United States as a schlock horror film for her punk girl protagonist: Acker's cipher for herself and other rebellious and nonconformist women. This approach will allow the reader to more fully understand Acker, as a writer who inhabits an explosive and creative nexus of contemporary women's writing, punk culture, and punk feminism's reimagining of late capitalism. This vital work will be an important text at both undergraduate and graduate levels in Gender and Women's Studies, Postmodern Studies and twentieth-century American literature. Margaret"--
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Henderson, Margaret A
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
index present
LC call number
PS3551.C44
LC item number
Z57 2021
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Interdisciplinary research in gender
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  • Acker, Kathy
  • Feminist fiction, American
  • Experimental fiction, American
  • Punk culture in literature
  • Capitalism and literature
  • Feminism in literature
  • Acker, Kathy
  • Capitalism and literature
  • Experimental fiction, American
  • Feminism in literature
  • Feminist fiction, American
Label
Kathy Acker : punk writer, Margaret Henderson
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Publication
Note
Actually published in 2020
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: The fin-de-siècle punk writer : the sense and non-sense of revolt -- Contexts and configurations of Acker. 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
Control code
1145433376
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
viii, 196 pages
Isbn
9781138296282
Lccn
2020031271
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40030330879
System control number
(OCoLC)1145433376
Label
Kathy Acker : punk writer, Margaret Henderson
Publication
Note
Actually published in 2020
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: The fin-de-siècle punk writer : the sense and non-sense of revolt -- Contexts and configurations of Acker. 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
Control code
1145433376
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
viii, 196 pages
Isbn
9781138296282
Lccn
2020031271
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40030330879
System control number
(OCoLC)1145433376

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