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Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writers Key Features 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 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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"Borowska skillfully analyses Acker's shrapnel-like thoughts through study of her readings about the revolutionary ideas manifested in the events of May 1968, from which radiate political and literary reverberations of other key moments of political crisis in modern history. This is a deeply learned exploration of Kathy Acker's political-philosophical quest.-- ""Kathryn Hume, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emerita, The Pennsylvania State University"""

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Emilia Borowska lectures in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London and is a former visiting research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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