{"product_id":"kathy-acker-hardback","title":"Kathy Acker - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic \u003cem\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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, \u003ci\u003eKathy Acker: Punk Writer\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003edétournement\u003c\/em\u003e, caricature, and montage, her \u003cem\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines the \u003cem\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45566818255086,"sku":"9781138296282","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138296282.jpg?v=1720698759","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/kathy-acker-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}