Margaret Henderson

Kathy Acker

Punk Writer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781138296282
• ISBN-10: 1138296287
• Artikelnr.: 59988156

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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