AUTOTHEORY AS FEMINIST PRACTICE IN ART, WRITING, AND CRITICISM

In the 2010s, the term autotheory began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and auto biography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disc iplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s ar tistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists incl uding Chri...[Llegir més]