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There are 18 critical essays on Kathy Acker.
Critical Essays on Kathy Acker
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 Critical Essay by Robert Siegle
6,034 words, approx. 20 pages
 In the following excerpt, Siegle offers an overview of Acker's literary significance and a critical reading of Don Quixote.
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Critical Essay by Ellen G. Friedman
5,423 words, approx. 18 pages
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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Critical Essay by Martina Sciolino
3,217 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Sciolino examines Acker's hybrid synthesis of poststructural theory, postmodern fiction, and feminist discourse.
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Critical Essay by Greg Lewis Peters
3,093 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Peters explores the narrative techniques and language of dominance and submission employed by Acker to subvert patriarchal hierarchies and conventional notions of sexual identity.
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Critical Essay by Douglas Shields Dix
2,745 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Dix examines nomadism, revolutionary subversion, and the possibility of personal affirmation and social transformation as portrayed by Acker in Don Quixote.
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Critical Essay by Naomi Jacobs
2,297 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following essay, Jacobs examines Acker's postmodern experimentation with authorial identity and literary history.
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Critical Review by Alev Adil
1,087 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Adil offers favorable assessments of Eurydice in the Underworld and Bodies of Work.
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