As a self–referential genre, autobiography explores the relationship between the “self” of the narrator
and the “self” in the world. Based on this explication of “self,” theorists of autobiography differ. Autobiography
flourished in the West from the Westerner’s belief in the concept of the Renaissance individual that takes its
inception in the Cartesian philosophy, which correlates “self” with “the thinking subject,” capable of producing
meaning, knowledge, and truth. From this humanist look, while the male critics like George Gusdorf, James
Olney read autobiography as a journey towards a self-understanding of the subject as individual and unique,
women critics find the “self” split and textually produced. The present paper focuses on how women started
voicing the difference of female subjectivity in terms of gender experience and how considering the context of
race, gender, class, sexuality, location, and many other hallmarks, postmodern critics advanced towards
articulating the “poetics of differences”. Moreover, reading Francois Lionnet’s concept of métissage in relation
to other postmodern theories of women’s autobiography, the paper argues métissage as the culmination of
theorizing differences regarding subjectivity and representation strategy
Renaissance Individual Relational Subject Poetics of Differences Métissage Francois Lionnet
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü, Edebi Çalışmalar, Edebi Teori |
Bölüm | Araştırma Makalesi |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 21 Şubat 2022 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 10 Eylül 2021 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2022 Sayı: 1 |