SOURCE: "'Now Eat Your Mind': An Introduction to the Works of Kathy Acker," in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall, 1989, pp. 37-49.
In the following essay, Friedman provides an overview of the intellectual, cultural, and literary contexts in which Acker's fiction, according to Friedman, is "designed to be jaws steadily devouring—often to readers' horror and certainly to their discomfort (which is part of the strategy)—the mindset, if not the mind of Western culture."
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