Introduction: Situating Negative Aesthetics
1Apocalyptic Feminism: Negative Aesthetics in Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto
2Kathy Acker’s Fatal Strategies
3“The Remnant Is the Whole”: History, Trauma, and the Politics of Absence in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
4Horrors of Power: Abjection and the “Monstrous-Masculine” in Chantal Chawaf’s Redemption
5Suspending Gender: The Politics of Indeterminacy in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body
6Becoming-Girl/Becoming-Fly/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry’s Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel