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Kathy Acker
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Postmodern American Literature
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Revolution
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- ISBN 9781474424653
- Weight: 564g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America’s most important avant-garde writers
Key Features
Situates Acker in broader social, political and historical contextsOffers an extensive analysis of the intersections between politics and literary form, asserting Acker’s pivotal position in the avant-garde tradition in the twentieth centuryOpens Acker’s texts to a range of theory and makes links between literature and other disciplines
This study brings the radicalism of Acker’s politics back to life. Moving beyond conventional accounts of her postmodernism, it explores her work as a continuation of the historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including Russian nihilism, Spanish anarchism and the global revolts of the 1960s, to create her own political agenda. In doing so, it presents Acker in a new light: a revolutionary voice in an age when such voices are sorely needed.
Emilia Borowska lectures in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London and is a former visiting research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. She has published articles on Kathy Acker and her recent essay, 'Politics, Passion and Abstraction in Kathy Acker’s “Russian Constructivism”', was awarded a special commendation by the Contemporary Women’s Writing journal, Oxford University Press.
