Introduction: The Fin-de-Siècle Punk Writer: The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt
Part I: Contexts and Configurations of Acker
Chapter One: Punk Times: The Scenes and Sounds of Punk Writing
Chapter Two: The Punk Writer Emerges: From Counterculture to Punk Culture
Chapter Three: The Punk Intellectual: Repossessing the European Avant-Garde
Chapter Four: The Punk Feminist Novelist: Making the Novel of Cruelty and Excess
Part II: Acker’s Punk Tropology
Chapter 5: Heterosexual Desire: Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Chapter 6: The Family: Great Expectations (1982)
Chapter 7: The Polity: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream (1986)
Chapter 8: The Economy: Empire of the Senseless (1988)
Conclusion: What Kathy Did
Biography
Margaret Henderson teaches literature at the University of Queensland. She has published extensively on feminist culture and women’s writing, including a study of feminist cultural memory, Marking Feminist Times, and with Anthea Taylor, Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism.
