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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. Some 20 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 nonconfo

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Author

Henderson, Margarer

Publisher

Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315100098

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science, Fiction