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Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, the writer William S. Burroughs, the artist and theoretician David Antin, French critical theory, feminist artists Carolee Schneeman and Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, mysticism, and pornography.

Known for

• Traceroute — Self (archive footage)2016
• Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? — Self2007
• The Falconer1998
• Kathy Acker in School1997
• Seeing Is Believing — Kathy Acker1992
• IDn4 — Kathy Acker1991
• The Golden Boat — Professor1991
• Kathy Acker — Self1984
• Dear Jimmy1978
• Blue Tape (Tape 2)1974

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Key facts

Born

Karen Lehman , ( 1947-04-18 ) April 18, 1947 (disputed) , New York City, New York, U.S.

Died

November 30, 1997 (1997-11-30) (aged 50), Tijuana , Baja California , Mexico

Occupation

Novelist poet playwright essayist critic performance artist

Citizenship

United States

Subject

Sexual politics, sexual taboo, sexual desire, queer and female fantasy, power dynamics, fragmented identity, childhood trauma, death and disease, violence and abuse, adolescent rebellion, pornography, literary plagiarism, language as resistance and inadequacy

Literary movement

Postmodernism Post-structuralism Post-structural feminism Blank Generation (literary) New Narrative

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)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Kathy

Family name

Acker

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Tijuana

Occupation

playwright

Educated at

Brandeis University

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

belletristic literature

Image

1996 Kathy Acker 004.jpg

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