LEADER 02688nam a22003377a 4500001 99125133168706421 005 20230124202238.0 006 m o d 007 cr u|||||||||| 008 211214p20202020xx o u00| u eng d 024 8 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315100098 035 (CKB)5310000000016905 035 (ScCtBLL)3cbb99b2-c8b9-4758-900a-586d9be0896d 035 (oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36347 035 (EXLCZ)995310000000016905 040 ScCtBLL |cScCtBLL 041 0 eng 100 1 Henderson, Margaret |eauthor. 245 00 Kathy Acker : |bPunk Writer / |cMargaret Henderson. 250 1 ed. 260 |bRoutledge |c2020 264 1 [s.l.] : |bRoutledge, |c2020. 300 1 online resource (196 p.) 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 490 1 Interdisciplinary Research in Gender 588 0 Description based on print version record. 520 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 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. 540 |fCC BY-NC-ND 546 English 536 Knowledge Unlatched 650 7 Social Science / Gender Studies |2bisacsh 650 0 Social sciences 653 Social Science 653 Gender Studies 776 |z1-351-58507-X 830 Interdisciplinary Research in Gender 906 BOOK