This collection of essays provides readers with access to a range of critical and theoretical essays that present a detailed analysis of transnationalism in Kathy Acker’s fiction. A wider aim of this book is to locate Acker’s work in the context of current debates on transnationalism, postnationalism, and global identity. Kathy Acker and Transnationalism therefore constitutes a timely re-appraisal of an important American writer, and a contribution to the growing field of studies in transnationalism.
Kathryn Nicol is an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. Her work has appeared in the collections Literature and Racial Ambiguity and Death in American texts and Performances, and most recently in the journal GRAMMA.