Emilia Borowska

The Politics of Kathy Acker

Revolution and the Avant-Garde

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writers This 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. Emilia Borowska lectures in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781474424653
• ISBN-10: 1474424651
• Artikelnr.: 54915491

Autorenporträt

Emilia Borowska lectures in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London and is a former visiting research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. She has published articles on Kathy Acker and her recent essay, 'Politics, Passion and Abstraction in Kathy Acker's "Russian Constructivism"', was awarded a special commendation by the Contemporary Women's Writing journal, Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. 'The Revolution Glitters': Revolutionary Terrorism in the 1970s Works
2. (K)night Time: Cynicism in Don Quixote
3. Politics, Passion and Abstraction in 'Russian Constructivism'
4. 'Beneath the Paving Stones': The Politics of Proximity in Empire of the Senseless and the Situationist Avant-Garde
5. Searching for the Subject: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune in In Memoriam to Identity
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index.