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Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death. At the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker’s protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother’s suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens’s classic-splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat’s sexually violent Eden, Eden, Eden, among other texts-alongside Acker’s trademark pithy dialogue, as well as prank missives to the likes of Susan Sontag, Sylvère Lotringer, and God. Kathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious-as a rebel and a groundbreaker-when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Lori Hope Lefkonvitz, New York, SUNY Press, 1997.The author of Empire of the Senseless gives the Dickens classic a punk twist, setting it in 1980s New York City. Sciolino, Martina, “The ‘Mutilating Body’ and the Decomposing Text: Recovery in Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations”, Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation, Ed. Ricerche per una semanalisi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1978. Recherches pour une sémanalyse (1969), trad. Patrick O'Donnell – Robert Con Davis, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 1989: 171-190. Hulley, Kathleen, “Transgressing Genre: Kathy Acker's Intertext”, Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, Eds. Complete Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives, Ed. Capitalismo e schizofrenia, Torino, Einaudi, 1975.ĭickens, Charles, “GreatExpectations” (1861), Great Expectations. Capitalisme et schizophrénie (1972), trad.

Don Chisciotte, Kathy Acker, Milano, Shake, 1999.ĭeleuze, Gilles – Guattari, Félix, L’Anti-Œdipe. Kathy Acker e il linguaggio della meraviglia”, Don Quixote (1986), trad. Il piacere del testo, Torino, Einaudi, 1975.Ĭarratello, Mattia, “Postfazione. Id., Bodies Of Work, London, Serpent’s Tail, 1997.īarthes, Roland, Le plaisir du texte (1973), trad. Id., “Kathy Acker interviewed by Rebecca Deaton”, Textual Practice, 6.1 (1992): 271-282. Acker, Kathy, Great Expectations, New York, Glove Press, 1982.