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Suburban Ambush

Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency

Robert Siegle

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Suburban Ambush is a cultural history of a downtown scene just beginning to attract mainsteam attention. From a neighborhood where pushers and poststructuralists meet on the street (sometimes violently), where the anger of sixties' activism never cooled, Suburban Ambush is an indispensable introduction to the women and men writing about what the Village Voice has called "the lower east side of sombody's gut." Siegle offers close reading of works by Acker, Dejong, Rose, Tillman, Ron Kolm, Patrick McGrath, Gary Indiana, and many others.

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Siegle is at once a patient literary historian and a trail blazing theorist of the type who is needed every twenty or so years; as such Suburban Ambush should be the study that will set the terms of debate in the decade now underway.

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9.25
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320
ISBN
9780801838545
Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Suburban Ambush
Chapter 2. Kathy Acker: The Blood and Guts of Guerrilla Warfare
Chapter 3. Constance DeJong: Eco-paleo-psycho-electro-cosmo Talk
Chapter 4. Lynne Tillman: Madame Realism

Preface
Chapter 1. Suburban Ambush
Chapter 2. Kathy Acker: The Blood and Guts of Guerrilla Warfare
Chapter 3. Constance DeJong: Eco-paleo-psycho-electro-cosmo Talk
Chapter 4. Lynne Tillman: Madame Realism'z Feminist Ethnology
Chapter 5. Tanam Press: Fire over Water
Chapter 6. Condensed Book: Perofrmance Art and Fiction
Chapter 7. Between C & D
Chapter 8. Village Voices
Chapter 9. DOwntown Writing
Works Cites
Index to Names and Titles

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Robert Siegle
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Robert Siegle

Robert Siegle is associate professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of The Politics of Reflexivity.