After Kathy Acker : a literary biography

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The work After Kathy Acker : a literary biography represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

After Kathy Acker : a literary biography

Title remainder

a literary biography

Statement of responsibility

Chris Kraus

Creator

• Kraus, Chris

Author

• Kraus, Chris

Subject

• Women authors, American
• 1900-1999
• Biography
• Biographies
• Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997
• Biographies
• Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997
• Authors, American

Genre

• Biographies
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon...scholar, stripper, victim, and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. Twenty years after her death, Acker's legend has faded, making her writing more legible. In this first, fully authorized, biography, Chris Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged. At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody. Using exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues and friends, Kraus charts Acker's movement through some of the late twentieth century's most significant artistic enterprises. Beginning in her mid-teens, Acker lived her ideal of the Great Writer as Cultural Hero, and as Kraus argues, she may well have been the only female writer to succeed in assuming this role. She died of untreated cancer at an alternative clinic in Tijuana when she was fifty years old, but the real pathos of Acker's life may have been in the fact that by then she'd already outlived her ideal"--Amazon.com

Member of

• Semiotext(e) active agents series

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

• 818/.5403
• B

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3551.C44

LC item number

Z67 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Semiotexte active agents series