{"product_id":"kathy-acker-punk-writer-paperback","title":"Kathy Acker: Punk Writer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Henderson\u003c\/strong\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMarking Feminist Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and with Anthea Taylor, \u003ci\u003ePostfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707004784703,"sku":"9780367538217","price":120.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/652841ee6cd0f2624f238b1e455a818c.webp?v=1765042462","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/kathy-acker-punk-writer-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}