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Affect in Autotheory
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This dissertation examines how Autotheory came to be as a mode of hybrid discourse that combines the representation of lived experience and critical engagement with academic texts. I trace in it a conceptual genealogy of self-writing and theory that hopes to illustrate its emergence without engaging in strict
chronological notions or establishing rigid criteria for a cannon autotheoretical texts. I then bring in affect theory as a lens through which autotheoretical texts can be analyzed due to their similarities in engagement with the problem representation. I carry out this analysis through a selection of fragments from The Argonauts by
Maggie Nelson, Bee Reaved by Dodie Bellamy, This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa, The Years by Annie Ernaux, Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark, Zami by Audre Lorde, Index Cards by Moyra Davey, Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil, and An
Apartment on Uranus by Paul B. Preciado. By setting these fragments in conversation with affect —and, to other extents, queer and decolonial— theory I analyze ways in which tensions between theory and lived experience feature in the texts. I trace different approaches in autotheory that either reject, go “beyond”, or
stay “between” representation when displaying such frictions and examine their potential drawbacks and offerings. Thus, hoping to remain aware of its challenges and avoid excessively engaging in its praise, I highlight an avenue for the development of writing that intends to dissolve a presupposed division between the
“auto-” and “theory”.
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Afeto Autoteoria