Kathy Acker: Punk Writer

ISBN-13: 9780367538217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 206 str.

Margaret Henderson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Fin-de-Siècle Punk Writer: The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt; Part I: Contexts and Configurations of Acker; Chapter One: Punk Times: The Scenes and Sounds of Punk Writing;  Chapter Two: The Punk Writer Emerges: From Counterculture to Punk Culture; Chapter Three: The Punk Intellectual: Repossessing the European Avant-Garde; Chapter Four: The Punk Feminist Novelist: Making the Novel of Cruelty and Excess; Part II: Acker’s Punk Tropology; Chapter 5: Heterosexual Desire: Blood and Guts in High School (1978); Chapter 6: The Family: Great Expectations (1982); Chapter 7: The Polity: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986); Chapter 8: The Economy: Empire of the Senseless (1988); Conclusion: What Kathy Did

O autorze

Margaret Henderson teaches literature at the University of Queensland. She has published extensively on feminist culture and women’s writing, including a study of feminist cultural memory, Marking Feminist Times, and with Anthea Taylor, Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism.