(De)facing the Self Poststructural Disruptions of the Autoethnographic Text  

Oleh:

de Freitas, Elizabeth ; Paton, Jillian

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Qualitative Inquiry vol. 15 no. 3 (Mar. 2009), page 483.
Topik: self; auto-ethnography; testimony; deconstruction
Fulltext: 483.pdf (109.74KB)

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This article draws on Lacanian theories of subjectivity to examine notions of the self in autoethnography. The authors discuss philosophical differences between Humanist and post-Humanist notions of the self and show how these notions are correlated to particular self-study genres, such as confession and testimony. The authors argue that autoethnographic narratives exhibit contradictory tendencies toward both Humanist and post-Humanist conceptions of subjectivity. Questionnaire responses from four participants are analyzed for evidence of this contradiction. The article concludes by suggesting that resolving the contradiction is neither possible nor desirable.

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