ABSTRACT

To get traction on the politics of form that we call ‘New Narrative’, I argue that we must defy disciplinary constraints and resist neglecting activities taking place away from the printed page. Looking closely at some of the visual work of Kathy Acker, this essay examines the radical ways in which the author brought drawing and writing together. It shows how the dream maps of Blood and Guts in High School foreclose familiar modes of literary consumption and call attention to the kinds of embodied encounters that take place when we can’t rely on our usual modes of (graphic) self-abstraction. Such encounters, I suggest, represent a challenge for critics, insofar as they require us to develop concepts that allow us to join authors like Acker in gesturing toward the subjects, objects, and practices that exist in the spaces between artistic and academic disciplines.

摘要

为了吸引我们称之为“新叙事”的形式政治，我认为我们必须无视纪律约束并抵制忽视在印刷页面之外发生的活动。这篇文章仔细研究了 Kathy Acker 的一些视觉作品，考察了作者将绘画和写作结合在一起的激进方式。它展示了高中时期的血与胆的梦想地图如何排除熟悉的文学消费模式，并引起人们对当我们不能依赖我们通常的（图形）自我抽象模式时发生的具体遭遇的类型的关注。我认为，这样的遭遇对批评家来说是一个挑战，因为它们要求我们发展概念，使我们能够与像阿克这样的作者一起向主题、客体、