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1	Subject matter: feminism, interiority, and literary embodiment after 1980 Lawson, Jessica Lynn 01 August 2015 (has links) I argue that literary texts after 1980 use the fluid relationship between the physical world and the world of writing in order to present alternate versions of the body’s relationship to the mind. Examining works by Toni Morrison, William Gibson, Kathy Acker, Sarah Kane, and Shelley Jackson, I demonstrate the ways in which these texts reinterpret the relationship between mind and body by offering bodily metaphors for their character’s interior emotional lives; they compare this inner life to a pregnant mother, a sexual couple, and more. I emphasize the political implications of the kinds of bodies employed in these metaphors, setting this against the background of late twentieth century feminism. I read my primary texts alongside the work of Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigary, and others, in order to chart the parallel projects of literature and theory in articulating the relationship between the body—especially, the female body—and our understandings of subjectivity and representation. Starting with the 1980s, when the second wave feminist movement suffered conservative backlash, and continuing through the development of the third wave, I examine literary theorizations of feminist concerns during a period of transition in the feminist movement itself. Feminism Kathy Acker Sarah Kane Shelley Jackson Toni Morrison William Gibson English Language and Literature
2	O/ändliga o/möjligheter i Kathy Ackers Great Expectations och Alison Knowles The Big Book Kihl, Emma January 2015 (has links) In this paper I'm trying to trace, analyze and emphasize Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations and Alison Knowles’s The Big Book in regard to the books in/finite im/possibilities. I analyze them through historical changes in the books format and structure, especially ones proposed by Mallarmé, Duchamp and Fluxus. To analyze the texts more closely attention is directed to how Acker and Knowles challenge the conventional narrative, in regard to the body and language/voice and sound. I give specific emphasizes to thoughts posted by écriture féminine, while also adding Mara Lee’s temporalities in regard to body resistance and time. A final thing I do in this paper is through close reading look at contemporary material discourses. I try to examine especially two examples that open up for in/finite im/possibilities in Acker’s and Knowles’s use and references to holes and animals. Kathy Acker Alison Knowles The Big Book Great Expectations Mallarmé Duchamp fluxus écriture féminine in/finite im/possibilities
3	Grabbing Their Own Pussies: Reclaiming Trauma and the Female Voice in Toni Morrison’s Paradise and Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School Froom, Chloe 19 May 2017 (has links) Toni Morrison and Kathy Acker write their novels within the subversive feminist literary movement described by Helene Cixous in “Laugh of the Medusa”. Through Morrison’s Paradise and Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School they create a platform for women silenced by their bodily trauma to express and eventually liberate themselves from their traumatic pasts. These female writers are calling attention to the pandemic of misogyny-related violence and allowing assault survivors to speak through their pain. Kathy Acker Toni Morrison Paradise Blood and Guts in High School trauma narratives sexual violence misogyny-related violence Arts and Humanities
4	"Rough Text: Women's Experiments in Undoing The Autobiographical Subject" Finck, Shannon 12 August 2014 (has links) Studies of women’s experimental narrative in the twentieth century have often been fixed to political interests in the recovery of women’s artistic practices for inclusion in the canons of literary modernism and formal postmodernism. Concurrent trends in philosophy and critical theory, however, propose the interrogation of the limits of subjectivity itself, suggesting that the most provocative assertions about human experience eschew the very categorical delimitations, like gender, on which such recovery projects depend. This dissertation traces the literary investments of women, particularly queer women, whose experiments in life-writing reconfigure the boundaries of human subjects without relinquishing claims to the material or political conditions that shape their lives. “Rough Text” examines writing that queers or complicates autobiography by featuring self-referential protagonists whose lives illustrate the explosive consequences of both gender and genre manipulation. Writing themselves by unfastening themselves textually, temporally, and spatially, these authors do a liberating violence to their own coherence that shakes, and then rethinks, the grounds of their ontologies in ways that offer alternatives to the “psychological squalor” Fredric Jameson describes as the postmodern condition. Life-writing Autobiography Women Subjectivity Corporeality Postmodernism Modernism Gertrude Stein H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Audre Lorde Kathy Acker Intertextuality Gender Sexuality Feminism
5	"Rough Text: Women's Experiments in Undoing The Autobiographical Subject" Finck, Shannon 12 August 2014 (has links) Studies of women’s experimental narrative in the twentieth century have often been fixed to political interests in the recovery of women’s artistic practices for inclusion in the canons of literary modernism and formal postmodernism. Concurrent trends in philosophy and critical theory, however, propose the interrogation of the limits of subjectivity itself, suggesting that the most provocative assertions about human experience eschew the very categorical delimitations, like gender, on which such recovery projects depend. This dissertation traces the literary investments of women, particularly queer women, whose experiments in life-writing reconfigure the boundaries of human subjects without relinquishing claims to the material or political conditions that shape their lives. “Rough Text” examines writing that queers or complicates autobiography by featuring self-referential protagonists whose lives illustrate the explosive consequences of both gender and genre manipulation. Writing themselves by unfastening themselves textually, temporally, and spatially, these authors do a liberating violence to their own coherence that shakes, and then rethinks, the grounds of their ontologies in ways that offer alternatives to the “psychological squalor” Fredric Jameson describes as the postmodern condition. Life-writing Autobiography Women Subjectivity Corporeality Postmodernism Modernism Gertrude Stein H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Audre Lorde Kathy Acker Intertextuality Gender Sexuality Feminism
6	SM in Postmodern America Franco, Marie January 2018 (has links) No description available. American Literature American Studies American History Gender Studies Literature Thomas Pynchon postmodernism sadomasochism BDSM leather queer kink American literature Kathy Acker William Burroughs SM narrative sexuality

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