Kathy Acker

•Kathy Acker
The Killers

•By Jason B. Crawford

•Kathy Acker

•Born: April 18, 1947
New York City, United States

•Playwright, Novelist and Essayist

•Wrote on Naïve Realism, Sex- Positive feminism, Post Modernism, etc.

•Died November 30, 1997 (Age 50)

•What is Naïve Realism?

•Naïve realism is the idea that we can display the images in head through text.

•We tend to have the believe that there is a word mirror between reality and what we think

•This is not true

•The Killers
Three Parts to One Story

1.The Conversation- With Bob Gluck and Kevin Killian about what book should Bob read. 

2.The Memory- About her childhood and meeting her cousin for the first time

3.The Dream- Searching for her father or any information about her father

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4.The Connection- Is the narrative

•Questioning Narrative: Rethinking Realism

•Other Notable Works

•Great Expectations (1983)

•Blood and Guts in High School (1984)

•Hannibal Lector My Father (1991)

•My Mother: Demonology (1994)

•Bodies Of Works: Essays (1996)

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