Politics of Kathy Acker

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Politics of Kathy Acker is written by Emilia Borowska and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 147442466X (ISBN 10) and 9781474424660 (ISBN 13).

Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writersSituates 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 disciplinesThis 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.