This study boldly argues for Acker's revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including the Paris Commune, Russian Nihilists and the global revolts of the 1960s.
This study boldly argues for Acker's revolutionary significance. It situates her within a historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including the Paris Commune, Russian Nihilists and the global revolts of the 1960s.
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.
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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.
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.
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