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Kathy Acker Quotes: Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
         

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.


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Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
         



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I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.



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