The Politics of Kathy Acker

Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America’s most important avant-garde writers Situates 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-garde tradition in the twentieth centuryOpens Acker’s texts to a range of theory and makes links between literature and other disciplines This study brings the radicalism of Acker’s politics back to