{"product_id":"autotheories-isbn-9780262552295","title":"Autotheories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAutotheories tells the story of a field in formation. Building on traditions that have long fused life writing, philosophical encounter, embodied theorizing, and cultural critique, autotheory constructs new practices of critical theory. Transgressing generic boundaries and bridging stylistic registers, it crafts language that is intimate, analytic, playful, and insurgent. Editors Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan underscore autotheory’s multiple genealogies and genre-bending forms while situating it within the contemporary political field. In this collection, autotheory emerges as a strut (of style), a straddle (of disciplines), a proliferation (of selves), an axis (of identifications), an index (of attachments), and an archive (of loves). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn assemblage and an experience, Autotheories surveys the field’s iterations and permutations. Without settling for classification or bowing to ossification, Autotheories invites you to its discursive play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex Brostoff, Jessica Bush, Judith Butler, Vilashini Cooppan, Carla Freccero, rl Goldberg, Jan Grue, Emma Lieber, Megan Moodie, Lili Owen Rowlands, John Patterson, Paul B. Preciado, Erica Richardson, Migueltzinta C. Solís, Jamieson Webster, Damon Ross Young, Stacey Young, Arianne ZwartjesIntroduction: Articulating Autotheories\u003cbr\u003eAlex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Body Disciplines\u003cbr\u003e1 Impossible Professions: Autotheory, Psychoanalysis, Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003eEmma Lieber, Jessica Bush, and John Patterson\u003cbr\u003e2 That Obscure Object of Embodiment: On Autotheory’s Disciplinary Knowledges\u003cbr\u003eJan Grue\u003cbr\u003e3 Autoethnography, Undone: Toward a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism\u003cbr\u003eMegan Moodie\u003cbr\u003e4 This Baby’s Got the Feel of a Girl: Trans Memoir, Autotheory, and Feeling as Oneself\u003cbr\u003eRL Goldberg\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Threshold Movements\u003cbr\u003e5 The Auto- of Theory\u003cbr\u003eCarla Freccero\u003cbr\u003e6 Our Autotheoretical Lives\u003cbr\u003eStacey Young\u003cbr\u003e7 “I’ll Take You There”: Reading Autotheory through Black Feminism\u003cbr\u003eErica Richardson\u003cbr\u003e8 Failure Notes: Toward a Self-Praxis of Failure\u003cbr\u003eArianne Zwartjes\u003cbr\u003e9 Begging to Differ: Autofiction, Autotheory and Contemporary French Feminisms\u003cbr\u003eLili Owen Rolands\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Desiring Subjects\u003cbr\u003e10 The Very Last Essay I Will Write about Ira Adelman: mestizXXX Autotheory, Pornographic Automethodologies, and Trans Autocinemas\u003cbr\u003eMigueltzinta C. Solís\u003cbr\u003e11 need ideas!?! PLZ!!: The Phatic Self in the Always-on Network\u003cbr\u003eDamon Ross Young\u003cbr\u003e12 Nova Species Mihi—Hysterical Flora\u003cbr\u003eJamieson Webster\u003cbr\u003e13 This Life, This Theory\u003cbr\u003eJudith Butler\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Empty\u003cbr\u003ePaul B. Preciado\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eContributors\"Theory wonks will love this rigorous and surprisingly playful survey of the genre of autotheory.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An indispensable addition to a growing field, this collection brings together a thrilling group of writers, thinkers, and practitioners to theorize the powerful, evolving concept of ‘autotheory’ that continues to grip so many of us.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lauren Fournier, Executive Director, Pleasure Dome; author of \u003ci\u003eAutotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The essays gathered here deliver a ‘self’ that lives up to the complexity of contemporary theory and politics. This is the book on autotheory we have been waiting for.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Heather Love, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; author of \u003ci\u003eUnderdogs: Queer Theory and Social Deviance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAlex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator, they are the coeditor of a special issue of \u003ci\u003eASAP\/Journal\u003c\/i\u003e on autotheory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the author of \u003ci\u003eWorlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300249850085,"sku":"NP9780262552295","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552295.jpg?v=1767721978","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/autotheories-isbn-9780262552295","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}