Kathy Acker | |
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 Acker in 1996 | |
| Born | Karen Lehman April 18, 1947 (disputed)[1] New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 30, 1997 (aged 50) Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Notable works | Blood and Guts in High School (novel) Great Expectations New York (short story) |
| Notable awards | Pushcart Prize (1979) |
| Spouse | Robert Acker (1966–19??) Peter Gordon (1976; annulled) |
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947[2] [disputed] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined her writing as existing in the post-nouveau roman European tradition.[3] In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence.
- ^ "The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker – Literary Hub". lithub.com. November 30, 2017. "In her own version of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, the narrator, as her Tarot cards—seen as "a psychic map of the present, therefore: the future"—are being read, refers to April 18 as her significator. The birth certificate, driver's license, and passport of the author give 1947 as birth year, relates Acker’s literary executor, Matias Viegener. Library of Congress information lists 1948, a date her publisher Grove Press takes for a biographical note for a posthumous gathering. In My Mother: Demonology, one of Acker’s last novels published while the author still lived, her narrative strategies have become to redo “childhood,” meaning within the work a set of returned-to memories, dreams, and also the pieces written when younger, the books loved rewritten. Here a narrator, if taken for a stand-in, changes her point of origin again, to something close but that does not exactly square, 'I was born on October 6, 1945.'"
- ^ "Kathy Acker in the U.S., Public Records Index, 1950–1993, Volume 1". search.ancestrylibrary.com.
- ^ Kraus, Chris (2017). After Kathy Acker. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 9781635900064. Retrieved January 12, 2018.