Suburban ambush
Subtitle: downtown writing and the fiction of insurgency
By: Robert Siegle.
Series: Parallax : re-visions of culture and society
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: American fiction -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.; Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism.; City and town life in literature.; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [403]-406.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Suburban ambush. The arts scene -- Ron Kolm and the suburban ambush -- Kathy Acker: the blood and guts of guerrilla warfare. The black tarantula’s art of appropriation -- To Haiti and back -- “All I want is a taste of your lips, boy” -- Don Quixote’s insurgent writing -- Empire of the senseless -- Constance DeJong: eco-paleo-psycho-electro-cosmo talk. “O, those desert nights” -- Modern love -- The Lucy Amarillo stories -- Lynne Tillman: Madame Realism’s feminist ethnology. The talking cure -- Madame Realism -- Living with contradictions -- The interstices of argument -- Tanam Press : fire over water. Reese Williams : writing as gift waves -- Richard Prince and prior availability -- Dictee -- The wild history of Tanam Press -- Condensed book : performance art and fiction. Spalding Gray and the colorful quilt of culture -- Eric Bogosian in the American funhouse -- The bagatelles of Peter Cherches -- Between C & D. Joel Rose : a red haze -- Catherine Texier : touching a nerve -- Patrick McGrath and the postmodern gothic -- “Not writing-school writing” -- Village voices. On the rack : downtown magazines -- Anne Thryn’s top stories -- Gary Indiana and the Burma road -- Susan Daitch and the colorist of history Judy Lopatin’s modern romances -- Roberta Allen and the traveling woman plans for the night -- Downtown writing. Differentiae -- Etymologies -- The shape of things to come.