autotheory

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ theory

Noun

autotheory (countable and uncountable, plural autotheories)

  1. A challenge to the dominant perspective and theoretical framework through the use of subjective and autobiographical material.
    • 2011, M. Johnson, S. Mintz, On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs: A Critical Anthology, →ISBN, page 55:
      Encounters with autotheory are not about a "warm fuzzy" effect for the reader: though possible, it is equally likely that one might be made distinctly uncomfortable while engaging honestly with the challenging analyses that autotheories present.
    • 2015, Karmele Mendoza Perez, “Book Reviews: Testo junkie: sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era”, in Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, volume 3, number 1, page 46:
      Preciado's creative narrative introduces us to a different kind of book: part memoir (what Preciado classifies as 'autotheory'), part queer theory.
    • 2018, Lauren Fournier, “Sick Women, Sad Girls, and Selfie Theory: Autotheory as Contemporary Feminist Practice”, in Auto/Biography Studies, volume 33, number 3:
      In autotheory as contemporary feminist practice, artists, writers, philosophers, activists, curators, and critics use the autobiographical, first person, and related practices of self-imaging (Jones, Self/Image 134) to process, perform, enact, iterate, subvert, instantiate, and wrestle with the hegemonic discourses of "theory" and philosophy.

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