Repetition and Embodiment: Performative Reading in Kathy Acker’s The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula
| Autor: | Courtney Foster |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Literature
Literature and Literary Theory business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Black tarantula Performative utterance 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies 050701 cultural studies Gender Studies Aesthetics Embodied cognition Reading (process) Performance studies 0602 languages and literature comic_books Criticism Performance art Repetition (music) Sociology business comic_books.character media_common |
| Zdroj: | Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 36:129-150 |
| ISSN: | 1936-1645 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/tsw.2017.0016 |
| Popis: | This article argues that Kathy Acker’s The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula enacts a mode of performative reading that imagines a place for literature within the world of performance art. Tracking Acker’s biographical relationships to performance art during the 1960s and 1970s, it shows how the novel engages performance artists’ conceptual concerns to conceive of reading as both a repetitive and embodied process. Acker’s interest in performance is in fact an underexplored aspect of her work that, read alongside existing criticism on Acker’s novels, provides an alternative genealogy for both Acker’s own writing as well as for her place in the trajectory of performance theory. Placing this biographical and textual reading within the larger framework of performance studies and performance theory, this essay contends that Acker is a neglected antecedent to current moments in the study of performance, anticipating the contemporary academic interest in both performance and archival theory |
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