The Politics of Kathy Acker : : Revolution and the Avant-Garde / / Emilia Borowska.

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-...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 ‘The Revolution Glitters’: Revolutionary Terrorism in the 1970s Works
  • Chapter 2 (K)night Time: Cynicism in Don Quixote
  • Chapter 3 Politics, Passion and Abstraction in ‘Russian Constructivism’
  • Chapter 4 ‘Beneath the Paving Stones’: The Politics of Proximity in Empire of the Senseless and the Situationist Avant-Garde
  • Chapter 5 Searching for the Subject: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune in In Memoriam to Identity
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index