Summary
Kathy Acker: High School Blood and Tears
Kathy Acker's literature can be classified as postmodernism, feminism, punk, New York underground, California nightmare. Her literature is always in the body, she is interested in physicality, suffering, violence, sexual pleasures, punishment, struggle, pain, suffering and, above all, the release of the bodily urge for life and words. Radical in experiments with the form and twists of the narrative, playful in overturning and moving the expected into completely new spheres and contexts. In his most famous novel, Acker combines, more than in any other text, a fragmentary narrative structure with poetry, fairy tales, diary entries, dream maps and drawings, searching for the ideal expression for the life journey on which he sends his heroine. .body and the bodies of other men, to fight with her fears and the world that causes them, to live, to survive, to conquer herself and the world around her, to dream and live the dream, to enjoy sexual pleasures and get rid of abortion, she is in fairy tales and horrors of growing up, she meets and loves Jean Genet, she is rejected and she who rejects and devotes herself to capitalism. She is a ten-year-old girl!
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