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novel, pornography, slipstream, punk, postmodern, sex, identity, language, memory, women
Book 2 of trilogy: The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (written under the pseudonym the Black Tarantula), I Dreamt I was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining! (written under the pseudonym the Black Tarantula), The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (written under the pseudonym Toulouse Lautrec). Also contained in Portrait of an Eye.
Opening line: "I become a murderess".
"The book is one long, twisted experiment with the word 'I' as text and identity. Acker went to the library and got the goods on a host of famous female Victorian killers. Like the drag queens she hung with when she wrote the book, she got into violent Victorian drag, rewriting the women's stories as autobiography and placing the stolen material next to parts of real autobiography." --Richard Kadrey (in Covert Culture Sourcebook , 1993).
"I wanted to examine the word 'I'. What is identity? I placed 'real' autobiography next to 'fake' autobiography. Nothing else mattered but the examination of this word 'I'; any other writing rules pointed the finger away from the moon." --Kathy Acker (in the introduction to Young Lust , 1988).
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