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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. [From Amazon.]

Author(s): Henderson, Margaret
Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021

Language: English
Pages: 196
City: Oxford & New York
Tags: American Literature; Criticism; Kathy Acker

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: The fin-de-siècle punk writer: the sense and non-sense of revolt 1

Part I

Contexts and configurations of Acker 25
1 Punk times: The scenes and sounds of punk writing 27
2 The punk writer emerges: From counterculture to punk culture 46
3 The punk intellectual: Repossessing the European avant-garde 63
4 The punk feminist novelist: Making the novel of cruelty and excess 83

Part II

Acker’s punk tropology 103
5 Heterosexual desire: Blood and Guts in High School (1978) 105
6 The family: Great Expectations (1982) 124
7 The polity: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986) 144
8 The economy: Empire of the Senseless (1988) 165

Conclusion: What Kathy did 187
Index 191