The  Politics of Kathy Acker: Revolution and the Avant-Garde

Emilia Borowska

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.

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The Politics of Kathy Acker

Revolution and the Avant-Garde

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Illustrations
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Abbreviations
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-50

1 - ‘The Revolution Glitters’: Revolutionary Terrorism in the 1970s Works
pp 51-86

2 - (K)night Time: Cynicism in Don Quixote
pp 87-136

3 - Politics, Passion and Abstraction in ‘Russian Constructivism’
pp 137-159

4 - ‘Beneath the Paving Stones’: The Politics of Proximity in Empire of the Senseless and the Situationist Avant-Garde
pp 160-201

5 - Searching for the Subject: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune in In Memoriam to Identity
pp 202-245

Conclusion
pp 246-249

Selected Bibliography
pp 250-265

Index
pp 266-278

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