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This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of
Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the
explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and feminism,
critiques and exemplifies late twentieth-century capitalism. There
is no female or feminist writer like Kathy Acker (and probably no
male either). Her body of work-nine novels, novellas, essays,
reviews, poetry, and film scripts, published in a period spanning
the 1970s to the mid 1990s-is the most developed body of
contemporary feminist postmodernist work and of the punk aesthetic
in a literary form. Some 20 years after her death, Kathy Acker:
Punk Writer gives a detailed and comprehensive analysis of how
Acker melds the philosophy and poetics of the European avant-garde
with the vernacular and ethos of her punk subculture to voice an
idiosyncratic feminist radical politics in literary form: a punk
feminism. With its aesthetics of shock, transgression, parody,
Debordian detournement, caricature, and montage, her oeuvre
reimagines the fin-de-siecle United States as a schlock horror film
for her punk girl protagonist: Acker's cipher for herself and other
rebellious and nonconformist women. This approach will allow the
reader to more fully understand Acker as a writer who inhabits an
explosive and creative nexus of contemporary women's writing, punk
culture, and punk feminism's reimagining of late capitalism. This
vital work will be an important text at both undergraduate and
graduate levels in gender and women's studies, postmodern studies,
and twentieth-century American literature.
Postfeminism in Context studies the representation of women in
Australian popular culture over the past three decades to locate
postfeminism in a specific time and place. Margaret Henderson and
Anthea Taylor argue that 'postfeminism', as a critical term, has
been too often deployed in ways that fail to account for historical
and cultural specificity. This book analyses Australian popular
culture - chick lit novels; 'dramedy' television shows; women's
magazines; YouTube beauty vlogs; self-help manuals; and newspapers
- to reveal the tensions, contradictions and ambiguities that have
always been constitutive of postfeminism, including in Australia.
Examining how these popular forms intervene in dominant
conversations about contemporary Australian femininities,
Postfeminism in Context maps the ways in which various aspects of
Australia's history and national identity have shaped its
postfeminism. While Henderson and Taylor identify some of the
limited postfeminist tropes and patterns of representation evident
in comparable locales, they also find that Australian popular
culture has responded to feminism in a much more hopeful way.
Adding some much-needed cultural specificity to the ongoing debate
around this loaded term, Postfeminism in Context is essential
reading for those interested in Australian popular culture,
feminism, and the gendered politics of representation.
This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of
Kathy Acker and how her unique art and politics, located at the
explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and feminism,
critiques and exemplifies late twentieth-century capitalism. There
is no female or feminist writer like Kathy Acker (and probably no
male either). Her body of work-nine novels, novellas, essays,
reviews, poetry, and film scripts, published in a period spanning
the 1970s to the mid 1990s-is the most developed body of
contemporary feminist postmodernist work and of the punk aesthetic
in a literary form. Some 20 years after her death, Kathy Acker:
Punk Writer gives a detailed and comprehensive analysis of how
Acker melds the philosophy and poetics of the European avant-garde
with the vernacular and ethos of her punk subculture to voice an
idiosyncratic feminist radical politics in literary form: a punk
feminism. With its aesthetics of shock, transgression, parody,
Debordian detournement, caricature, and montage, her oeuvre
reimagines the fin-de-siecle United States as a schlock horror film
for her punk girl protagonist: Acker's cipher for herself and other
rebellious and nonconformist women. This approach will allow the
reader to more fully understand Acker as a writer who inhabits an
explosive and creative nexus of contemporary women's writing, punk
culture, and punk feminism's reimagining of late capitalism. This
vital work will be an important text at both undergraduate and
graduate levels in gender and women's studies, postmodern studies,
and twentieth-century American literature.
Postfeminism in Context studies the representation of women in
Australian popular culture over the past three decades to locate
postfeminism in a specific time and place. Margaret Henderson and
Anthea Taylor argue that 'postfeminism', as a critical term, has
been too often deployed in ways that fail to account for historical
and cultural specificity. This book analyses Australian popular
culture - chick lit novels; 'dramedy' television shows; women's
magazines; YouTube beauty vlogs; self-help manuals; and newspapers
- to reveal the tensions, contradictions and ambiguities that have
always been constitutive of postfeminism, including in Australia.
Examining how these popular forms intervene in dominant
conversations about contemporary Australian femininities,
Postfeminism in Context maps the ways in which various aspects of
Australia's history and national identity have shaped its
postfeminism. While Henderson and Taylor identify some of the
limited postfeminist tropes and patterns of representation evident
in comparable locales, they also find that Australian popular
culture has responded to feminism in a much more hopeful way.
Adding some much-needed cultural specificity to the ongoing debate
around this loaded term, Postfeminism in Context is essential
reading for those interested in Australian popular culture,
feminism, and the gendered politics of representation.
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing
Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of
the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in
urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech,
racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to
produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult
society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's
enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged
obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and
expressed not through social investment, but through consumption;
the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the
power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the
affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising
industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social
conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the
relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education,
harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of
intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on
education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction,
identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for
moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the
logic of global capitalism.
As a tourist, while you were enjoying your vacation surroundings,
have you ever wondered "What would it be like to live here?" What
is it like to live in Ouray all year round? I am often asked that
by tourists who marvel at their vacation experience and wonder
about life in Ouray and this book answers that question. A book of
monthly narratives reveals the social fabric develops from the many
the environmental, civic, cultural and artistic threads that weave
the experience of living in Ouray all year round. This underlying
pattern of that tapestry represents the rhythm of Ouray, 365 days
of the year as life goes on all year round. If you are an Ouray
visitor, either a past or future one, perhaps my writing will give
you new insight. Whether you ever visit Ouray or not, perhaps it
will give you a dose of curiosity about the places you do visit.
And perhaps, through my writing, you will become acquainted with a
beautiful, small, mountain town in Colorado. But most of all, I
hope that you gain some understanding of the anatomy and lifeblood
of small towns and their operations all the days of the year, for
their existence is a testament to the creativity and perseverance
of the collective human spirit.
This child centred, simple route to reading for pre-school children
has been tried and tested with great success over a number of years
by the author, a psychology graduate and qualified teacher. The
scheme, a distillation of sight reading and the currently favoured
synthetic systematic phonics approach, encourages children to learn
to read with Sam, a character they will find fun and very easy to
identify with. This scheme allows children to create their own
first reading book which is followed by a series of fifteen short
stories gradually extending most frequently used words to include
the 45 key words to reading advised by the National Literacy
Strategy. With pictures to colour and space for drawing, there is
plenty of scope for children to have fun making this book their
own. With no punishing schedules to follow, this all inclusive
activity book offers a very flexible approach, ensuring an
enjoyable and satisfying reading adventure for both you and your
child.
Just now Harriet envies the traffic lights outside Starboard Marine
North West. Programmed. Devoid of anxiety, turmoil, indecision. Her
life? One big hole! How did she manage to dig three men in so soon?
She's fighting to get back to amber. But can she? In the face of
serious revelations there's no safe place to be. How did she end up
in Venice with Tricia? In serious trouble now. Both of them
embroiled. Way out of depth. This story, spiked with humour and the
third in the series, tells the next three weeks in Harriet's life.
Passionate, painful, tense and intriguing; go with the trail of
devastation and fury only Harriet could leave as she tries in
desperation to cling to her dreams.
When writing is a first love, where does an author go in between
books? For me blogging filled the gap. A chance to depart from the
world of fiction to write about the everyday, just where my stories
are rooted. I was tempted to stop! I was feeling far too much like
Harriet! Inevitable disillusionment for those who know me! Insight
to the source of inspiration for those who don't! It's life either
side of The Big 40! No delete button! So here it is for posterity.
In the nest. Watching the others A fledgling waiting for wings.
Dreaming a flight of fancy!'
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Amber (Paperback)
Margaret Henderson Smith
bundle available
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R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Fearing repercussions from the Venice affair, Mr. Sanderson insists
Harriet and Tricia attend the school camp, only to suspend them
from duty after causing mayhem. On her return, Harriet comes up
with a great idea to help solve the parents' debt problems but
refusing to heed all warnings, she finds herself up against the new
pawnbroker and gets more than she bargains for, dragging Tricia in
her wake. Still unable to get Mr. Sanderson out of her mind she
struggles to stay on amber but to Mark's annoyance, her burning
desire for him outstrips her reason. That can only mean one thing.
Trouble
Harriet's life is going nowhere! Tired of trying to get her
commitophobe partner to marry her, she finds herself falling for
her boss, the gorgeous six foot blonde in charge of her school,
only to discover she's not the only one! She soon learns he has
fingers in other pies and dubious friends in high places. A
Question of Answers is a contemporary novel sparking off the
conflicts between the differing worlds of the haves and have nots.
Live the highs and lows of Harriet's dilemma as she takes you on a
passionate yet humorous journey in pursuit of her dreams. .
Harriet. Caught between the steady and the charismatic. Wavering.
Two very different men. She's trouble. Can't stay out of it. Still
digging away. In serious danger of collapsing the fragile corners
of her triangular existence into one big hole. Can Mark really put
his fear of marriage behind him? She's only looking for one answer.
Unless of course 'that gorgeous hunk of a blonde' in charge of her
school gets there first. Him? Unlikely. Different worlds. Too many
questions. A weft of answers weave their way through the story. In
and out. Criss-crossing the threads of rivalry, jealousy, anger,
passion and desire. Ride all Harriet's emotions as she takes you on
the rest of her journey. Then ask. 'Was she ever in control of her
dreams?' Ne Obliviscaris is the sequel to Margaret's first novel A
Question of Answers.
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