Project Director

Palmer, Heather

Department Examiner

Kuby, William; O'Dea, Gregory

Department

Dept. of English

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

This paper outlines the significance of contemporary readings of feminist writers Angela Carter and Kathy Acker and traces the genres and theories they utilize: magic realism, pastiche strategy, and postmodern feminism. Through their employment of these aesthetic and expressive strategies, they position themselves kairotically as writers conscious of the context from which they are writing in. This paper explores Acker and Carter’s adherence to the arguments of postmodern feminism through their navigation of feminine identity, sexuality, and their critiques of patriarchy and capitalism. For this paper’s argument that contemporary audiences should continue to read Acker and Carter, the evidence drawn from their text seeks to highlight the ways in which their concerns continue to be the concerns of contemporary audiences while leaving room for some thematic adaptability.

Acknowledgments

For the women of my past, present, and future. I hope you see yourselves in the pages that follow. Thank you for being the thing I find myself most impassioned to write about.

Degree

B. A.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Date

5-2024

Subject

Feminist literary criticism; Magic realism (Literature); Postmodernism (Literature)

Name

Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997--Criticism and interpretation; Carter, Angela, 1940-1992--Criticism and interpretation

Keyword

Postmodernism, Feminism, Magic Realism, Literature, Postmodern Feminism, Pastiche

Discipline

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Document Type

Theses

Extent

v, 60 leaves

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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