What makes the work of the American experimental writer Kathy Acker so utterly relevant today, almost thirty years after her passing? The articles collected in this volume aim to provide answers to this question. Indeed, through studies of both Acker's published and unpublished works, analyses of her writing process, and pieces blurring the boundaries between critical and creative writing, these articles map the writer's body of works and weave webs the way the "Black Tarantula" would. Kathy Acker was part of a tradition of literary radicals and rebels of the 20th century avant-garde that flourished in the Counterculture and continued in the punk culture. Through acts of literary piracy and shock tactics, she unveiled and stood against techniques of domination and control. Indeed, she appropriated others' texts, subverted genres and genders and thus challenged the rigidity of meaning and identity to allow them to fluctuate and flow. These texts confirm the central roles of both body and language in Acker's works as spaces of friction between power and liberation and position the writer as a radical practitioner, a visionary.
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- Eat your Heart Out: The Lifework of Kathy Acker
- “I was kind of conscious”: Queering the Neoliberal Body
- Kathy Acker: Jewish Woman Writer
- Feminist Solidarity and Experiment in Kathy Acker’s Early Writings
- Kathy Acker’s Cuntemporary
- Acker’s Body of Gender
- In Memoriam to Kathy Acker’s Biography
- Requiem: Aching for Acker
- Theory of Prophecy: On Kathy Acker and Dreams
- Feeding the Dogs
- Legible (Dream)
- My Film Variety and Working with Kathy Acker
- Kathy Acker’s Gift
- An Interview with Sarah Schulman
- A Letter to Kathy Acker
- The Assassination of Kathy Acker (excerpts)
- Bodies of Words, Written and Spoken: a Kathy Acker Bibliography and More
- Acknowledgements
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