Research Catalog

Title

Eat your heart out : the lifework of Kathy Acker / texts edited by Valérie Rauzier.

Publication

Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2022.

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Additional Authors

Rauzier, Valérie

Description

204 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm.

Summary

"What makes the work of the American experimental writer Kathy Acker so utterly relevant today, almost th irty years after lier passing? The articles collectai in this volume aim to provide answers to this question. Indeed, through st Liches of both Acker's published and unpublished works, analyses of lier writing process, and pieces blurring the boundaries between critical and creative writing, these articles map the Ivriter's body of works and weave webs the way the "Black 'l'arc-intuitif would. Kathy Acker was part of a tradition of literary Tad icals and rebels of the 2Oth centtii), avant-garde that flour-ished in the Counterculture and continuai in the punk culture. Through acts of literary piracy and shock tactics, she unveiled and stood against techniques of domination and control. Indeed, she appropriated others̀ texts, subverted genres and genders and thus challenged the rigidity of meaning and identity to allow film to fluctuate and flow. These texts confirm the central rotes of both body and language in Acker's works as spaces of friction between power and liberation and position the writer as a radical practitioner, a visionary."--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Collection "Horizons anglophones". Série Profils américains

Uniform Title

Collection "Horizons anglophones." Série Profils américains.

Subject

Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, discography and filmography (pages 181-192).

Contents

Eat your Heart Out The Lifework of Kathy Acker -- *I was kind of conscioue Queering the Neoliberal Body -- Kathy Acker. Jewish Woman Writer -- Femlnist Solidarity and Experiment in Kathy Acker's Early Writlngs -- Kathy Acker's Cuntemporary. Femlnism, Fuck Vous, and Avant-garde Literary Technologies -- Acker's Body of Gender -- ln Memoriam to Kathy Acker's Blography -- Requiem : Aching for Acker -- Theory of Prophecy : On Kathy Acker and Dreams -- Feeding the Dogs -- Legibie (Dream) -- My Film Variety and Working with Kathy Acker -- Kathy Acker's G* -- An Interview with Sarah Schuiman -- A Letter to Kathy Acker -- The Assassination of Kathy Acker (excerpts) -- Bodies of Words, Written and Spoken : a Kathy Acker Bibliography and More.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-109016

ISBN

9782367814711

OCLC

• 1356271332
• AAL08210504-0001

Title

Eat your heart out : the lifework of Kathy Acker / texts edited by Valérie Rauzier.

Publisher

Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Collection "Horizons anglophones". Série Profils américains

Collection "Horizons anglophones." Série Profils américains.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references, discography and filmography (pages 181-192).

Biography

Valérie Rauziep is the author ofa doctoral thesis on Kathy Acker entitled Diamandà Galas et Kathy Acker : contre-pouvoir à corps et à crisiler interests encompass cultural and queer studies as well as MUSIC literature, feminism and alternative media. She lives in Oslo, Norway, where she teaches English.

Added Author

Rauzier, Valérie, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-109016