{"product_id":"kathy-acker-margaret-henderson-9780367538217","title":"Kathy Acker: Punk Writer","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\u003ed騁ournement\u003c\/em\u003e, caricature, and montage, her \u003cem\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines the \u003cem\u003efin-de-si鐵le\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Henderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367538210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367538217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Margaret Henderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057229394175,"sku":"9780367538217","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ec5ee25-774b-4298-9d77-6b7acc3cd99e.jpg?v=1685045774","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kathy-acker-margaret-henderson-9780367538217","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}