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"This book argues for putting practices of reading at the center of a revitalized concept of post-modernism. Proposing that reading existing texts and recombining available images are the paradigmatic activities of contemporary cultural and political life, it analyzes the work of feminist novelists Kathy Acker and Angela Carter. Both writers' novels borrow heavily from other authors, and in doing so they offer strategies for a politically committed rereading of literary history and its interaction with the popular imagination.". "This study situates Carter's works from the 1970s and Acker's…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2002Bucknell University Press · 223 pages · 9780838754870
- Other · English · 2001Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated · 9781611481440
History and criticismCriticism and interpretationFeminism and literatureEnglish Feminist fictionPostmodernism (Literature)American Feminist fictionWomen and literatureHistory