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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"autotheory"”.
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A Different Subject: Autotheory in Contemporary French Self-Writing
… the self. In so doing, this thesis establishes ‘autotheory’ — a genre which has gained recent critical interest to describe Anglophone texts that blend autobiography with theory — in the French context, arguing that its emergence marks a formal and ideological rupture with the predominant mode of …
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Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness
… the post-2016 genre of self-care comedy; and autotheory about the <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)</em> as examining how sexist, racist, and ableist ideals of wellness have placed fraught and contradictory demands on the feminist subject. I argue that these texts …
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Worn Lines: Healing Through the Marked Body
… piece, forming a visual narrative grounded in autotheory. These works trace my evolving relationship with my body, from struggles of body dysmorphia and eating disorders to experiencing self-acceptance and empowerment. Ultimately, this exhibition invites reflection on tattoos as transformative …
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The things of now
… in structure, placing it within the realm of autotheory. By utilizing an autotheoretical approach, the manuscript, in the words of Lauren Fournier, can be seen to “exceed existing genre categories.” This allows me not only to examine how large-scale phenomena such as capitalism, colonialism, …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… As a type of life writing that tends toward autotheory, the “Stories of Survival” section deconstructs narratives of empire building, colonization, nation-state borders of exclusion, and the often-traumatic experiences of a refugee, illegal immigrant, and temporary guest who immigrated to …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… to literary analysis. This work also employs autotheory, a mode that seeks to lay bare some of the “entanglement of research and creation” and “reveals the tenuousness of maintaining illusory separations between art and life, theory and practice, work and the self, research and motivation” …
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How Can Solastalgia Restore a Lost Sense of Belonging to the Image? An autotheoretical attempt to return to a documentary practice and recover a filmic voice
… voice. I analyse this creative practice through autotheory (Fournier, 2021) so that among notes and memories that follow and give an account of the iterations of the research process, a theoretical framework emerges. I invoke various textual forms, including an account of my working process, the …
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
This dissertation considers portrayals of overlooked and undervalued figures who have been rendered structurally peripheral within contemporary art practices. I suggest select artists enact institutional critiques that aspire for a radically different art world by first engaging with an expansive …
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Navigating fluidity: how embodied and creative experiential education sustains Gen Z's identities – an autoethnographic perspective
Based on the lived experiences of the researcher who is a Gen Z dance graduate, this autotheoretical and autoethnographic research investigates Gen Z's identities and context to develop a new understanding of their sense of self through ideas of embodiment. It seeks to assess the role of arts …
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Distant Early Warnings: Arts Leadership and Creative Practice in Unsettled Times
Distant Early Warnings: Arts Leadership and Creative Practice in Unsettled Times is a MA research-creation project that reflects on the relationship between arts leadership, creative practice, and cultural change. Using songwriting as an embodied, queer feminist method, this ‘portfolio’ format …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
This dissertation theorizes the synthesis of solidarities around queer embodied performativities as a mode of making-resistant the everyday experiences of exploitation under transnational capitalism. These solidarities, I argue, are cultivated around the affective, embodied experiences of what José …