A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory. Autotheories 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).
An 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.
Contributors include:
Alex 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 Zwartjes
一群跨學科的作者提供了一個新的參考框架，探討自我理論（autotheory）及其在自傳與批判理論之間的類型融合。
自我理論講述了一個正在形成的領域。它建立在長期融合生活寫作、哲學遭遇、具身理論化和文化批評的傳統之上，構建出新的批判理論實踐。自我理論突破了類型邊界，橋接了風格範疇，創造出親密、分析、遊戲和叛逆的語言。編輯 Alex Brostoff 和 Vilashini Cooppan 強調自我理論的多重系譜和類型融合形式，同時將其置於當代政治領域中。在這本合集裡，自我理論作為一種風格的支撐、一種學科的跨越、一種自我的增殖、一種認同的軸心、一種依附的指標，以及一種愛的檔案而出現。
自我理論是一個集合體和一種經驗，調查了該領域的各種變體和排列。自我理論不滿足於分類或屈從於僵化，而是邀請你參與其話語的遊戲。
貢獻者包括：
Alex 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 Zwartjes
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.
亞歷克斯·布羅斯托夫（Alex Brostoff）是肯揚學院（Kenyon College）英語助理教授。他是一位跨學科的學者和翻譯家，也是《ASAP/Journal》關於自我理論（autotheory）特刊的共同編輯。
維拉希尼·庫帕（Vilashini Cooppan）是加州大學聖克魯斯分校（University of California at Santa Cruz）文學及批判種族與族裔研究教授，並且是《內部的世界：後殖民寫作中的國家敘事與全球連結》（Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing）的作者。
