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Kathy Acker’s Gift
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On the occasion of a public marathon reading in New York of Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School in which she participated, the writer Catherine Texier recalls how she discovered the work of Kathy Acker when she first arrived in New York from her native France in the early 80’s. Later she attended Acker’s powerful and provocative performances and got to know her. In this essay Texier pays homage to Acker’s bold and free voice, and to the way she mixed appropriation, plagiarism, cut-up techniques inherited from Burroughs, like the true punk that she was. She also connects Acker’s work to that of French women writers often grouped in the movement of auto-fiction, like Camille Laurens, Christine Angot, Annie Ernaux and Catherine Cusset.
Title: Kathy Acker’s Gift
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On the occasion of a public marathon reading in New York of Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School in which she participated, the writer Catherine Texier recalls how she discovered the work of Kathy Acker when she first arrived in New York from her native France in the early 80’s.
Later she attended Acker’s powerful and provocative performances and got to know her.
In this essay Texier pays homage to Acker’s bold and free voice, and to the way she mixed appropriation, plagiarism, cut-up techniques inherited from Burroughs, like the true punk that she was.
She also connects Acker’s work to that of French women writers often grouped in the movement of auto-fiction, like Camille Laurens, Christine Angot, Annie Ernaux and Catherine Cusset.
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