Uncorrected Proof from a countercultural icon
ACKER, Kathy. My Mother: Demonology. New York: Pantheon Books. 1993.
8vo. Original light blue wrappers with title lettering in black to spine; loosely inserted red publishers dust jacket; pp. [xii] 261 [10]; fine.
Uncorrected proof including a loosely inserted original dustjacket with black inkstamp in verso.
By the 1970's, Kathy Acker was a renown post-punk Anarchist whose outrageous content (extreme pornography, intentional creative plagiarism) is still polarising both on a a stylistic and conceptual level. William Burroughs was her mentor and she maintained a similair disrepect for the classical literary canon, debasing male titles such as Don Quixote and Great Expectations by locating them in her own fragmentary and ill-disciplined worlds.
With her hyperbolic, intense marriage between hell and fantasy Acker still holds a legacy as one of the Postmodernist's most provocative acts. My Mother: Demonology is based loosely on the relationship between Georges Bataille and Colette Peignot and tells the tale of a woman facing a battle against choosing the fate of love or solitutde, transporting the characer back to her childhood memories. With it's ability to link subjects as diverse as cult works of cinema and canonical literature using elements of radical fragmentation, My Mother: Demonology secures Acker's status as a transgressive icon.
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