Introduction: Kathy Acker and the Avant-Garde

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. List of Abbreviations ix
6. Introduction: Kathy Acker and the Avant-Garde 1
7. Chapter 1. Writing Asystematically: Early Experimental Writings 1970–1979 25
8. Chapter 2. Collage and the Anxiety of Self-description: Blood and Guts in High School 65
9. Chapter 3. Writing-through: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream 110
10. Chapter 4. Intertextuality and Constructive Non-identity: In Memoriam to Identity 140
11. Chapter 5. Montage and Creative Cutting: My Mother: Demonology 172
12. Chapter 6. Ekphrasis, Abstraction, and Myth: ‘From Psyche’s Journal’, Eurydice in the Underworld, ‘Requiem’ 215
13. Conclusion 245
14. Notes 249
15. Bibliography 285
16. Index 301