After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography

by Chris Kraus

Book Overview

The first authorized biography of postmodernism's literary hero, Kathy Acker.

Acker's life was a fable; and to describe the confusion and love and conflicting agendas behind these memorials would be to sketch an apocryphal allegory of an artistic life in the late twentieth century. It is girls from which stories begin, she wrote in her last notebook. And like other lives, but unlike most fables, it was created through means both within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635900069
• ISBN13: 9781635900064
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher