Mothers, Faggots, and Witnessing (Un)Contestable Experience  

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Adams, Tony E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 9 no. 5 (Oct. 2009), page 619-626.
Topik: autoethnography; experience; writing; misogyny; sexuality
Fulltext: 04. Mothers, Faggots, and Witnessing (Un)Contestable Experience.pdf (112.13KB)

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In this essay, I make two suggestions about personal experience represented in writing. First, I suggest that this experience can be contested when the conditions and the representation of experience are critiqued rather than the experience itself. Second, I suggest that personal experience represented in writing, for example, an autoethnography, can also be “uncontestable” (Scott, 1991, p. 777). An autoethnography is not a disembodied text. A body, a subject, a vulnerable body and subject, is intertwined with and constituted by this text. As such, it becomes difficult to disentangle an autoethnographic representation from its corresponding, constituted-via-this-representation body and subject, thus making a critique of the text a critique of the life.

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