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Index
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Introduction: Situating Negative Aesthetics
1 Apocalyptic Feminism: Negative Aesthetics in Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto
In the time of SCUM
Reading SCUM Manifesto
SCUM’s feminist affects
2 Kathy Acker’s Fatal Strategies
Acker’s anti-narratives
Acker’s abject female bodies
Acker’s fatal strategies
3 “The Remnant Is the Whole”: History, Trauma, and the Politics of Absence in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
The longing in the faces of the lost
She speaks her
4 Horrors of Power: Abjection and the “Monstrous-Masculine” in Chantal Chawaf’s Redemption
Immersed in abjection
Why approach abjection?
5 Suspending Gender: The Politics of Indeterminacy in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body
Reading indeterminacy
Reading indeterminately?
What’s indeterminacy got to do with it?
What’s loss got to do with it?
6 Becoming-Girl/Becoming-Fly/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry’s Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel
Becoming cruddy in the days of the father
Becoming-fly
Becoming-imperceptible
Conclusion: From SCUM to Cruddy and Beyond
Bibliography
Index
Also available from Bloomsbury
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