The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula

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The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula

novel by Acker

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Kathy Acker
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In the early novel The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (1973), this process of appropriation is central to the narrator’s quest for identity. The book’s themes of alienation and objectified sexuality recur in such later novels as Great Expectations (1982). Written after the death of Acker’s mother and…
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In the early novel The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (1973), this process of appropriation is central to the narrator’s quest for identity. The book’s themes of alienation and objectified sexuality recur in such later novels as Great Expectations (1982). Written after the death of Acker’s mother and…
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