Autotheories

A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory. Contributors to this book investigate the field’s emergent archive of cultural objects, its critical-creative praxis, and the subsequent reconfiguration of the subject in theory. This volume summons an “auto” that is not the self alone but one yoked to other selves and structures, articulated through the language of theory, declared through desire. Chapters stage encounters among autoethnography, autofiction, and creative nonfiction, social movements, BIPOC feminisms, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, trans and queer studies, disability studies, and new media studies. An assemblage and an experience, Without settling for classification or bowing to ossification,

Product details

• Authors: Alex Brostoff, Vilashini Cooppan, Cooppan Vilashini
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9780262552295
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55229-5
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, ART / Criticism & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory