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Butler, Alice Elisabeth, 2019, Book Section, Fan letters of love Fandom as Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers:. Goldsmiths University Press, pp. 149-164. ISBN 9781912685134

Abstract or Description:

Drawing on the queer-feminist work of Jane Gallop, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Maggie Nelson, this essay in two parts— which is epistolary in form and content—considers the reparative effects of writing a love letter to a dead woman writer; argues it to be a loving and sustaining form of feminist criticism: an example of what the author terms "close writing". The essay performs its critique by getting "close to" the lives, writings, and images of two US-American women writers associated with the New York Downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s: Kathy Acker (1947–1997) and Cookie Mueller (1949–1989).

Official URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781912685134/fandom-as-m...
Subjects: Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art
Creative Arts and Design > W800 Imaginative Writing
Creative Arts and Design > W900 Others in Creative Arts and Design
School or Centre: School of Arts & Humanities
Other
Funders: AHRC
Uncontrolled Keywords: Fandom, love letter, feminist writing, queer theory, close writing, epistolary writing, Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2024 10:02
Last Modified: 04 Jun 2025 22:21
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5917
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