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Author:   Alex Brostoff ,  Vilashini Cooppan
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.369kg
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9780262552295

ISBN 10:   0262552299
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   18 February 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Articulating Autotheories Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan Part I: Body Disciplines 1 Impossible Professions: Autotheory, Psychoanalysis, Pedagogy Emma Lieber, Jessica Bush, and John Patterson 2 That Obscure Object of Embodiment: On Autotheory’s Disciplinary Knowledges Jan Grue 3 Autoethnography, Undone: Toward a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism Megan Moodie 4 This Baby’s Got the Feel of a Girl: Trans Memoir, Autotheory, and Feeling as Oneself RL Goldberg Part II: Threshold Movements 5 The Auto- of Theory Carla Freccero 6 Our Autotheoretical Lives Stacey Young 7 “I’ll Take You There”: Reading Autotheory through Black Feminism Erica Richardson 8 Failure Notes: Toward a Self-Praxis of Failure Arianne Zwartjes 9 Begging to Differ: Autofiction, Autotheory and Contemporary French Feminisms Lili Owen Rolands Part III: Desiring Subjects 10 The Very Last Essay I Will Write about Ira Adelman: mestizXXX Autotheory, Pornographic Automethodologies, and Trans Autocinemas Migueltzinta C. Solís 11 need ideas!?! PLZ!!: The Phatic Self in the Always-on Network Damon Ross Young 12 Nova Species Mihi—Hysterical Flora Jamieson Webster 13 This Life, This Theory Judith Butler Coda: Empty Paul B. Preciado Acknowledgments Contributors

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""Theory wonks will love this rigorous and surprisingly playful survey of the genre of autotheory."" —The Millions

Author Information

Alex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator, they are the coeditor of a special issue of ASAP/Journal on autotheory. Vilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the author of Worlds Within- National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing.

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