Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory — Summer 2022

Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory

Volume 43, Number 2
Summer 2022

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From the Editor

Dark Academe by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Focus: Autofiction & Autotheory

Introduction: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Regimes of Visibility by Laura Cernat

Autofiction across Borders: Anglo-Metamorphoses of a French Concept by Karen Ferreira-Meyers

“Certain people were born with the internet inside them and suffered greatly from it”: Autofiction at the Intersection of Self, Sociality, and Mediation by Anna Poletti

Refugee Writing and the Right to Autofiction by Tom Toremans

Reading Autofiction: The Cognitive Turn by Alison Gibbons

Against Autofiction: The French Resistance to Autofiction from Gérard Genette to Julia Kristeva by Anneleen Masschelein

Ben Lerner’s Autofictional Politics of Form by Ioannis Tsitsovits

“That Listening Mien”: Queer and Psychoanalytic Intersubjectivity in Sedgwick’s Autotheory by Yael Segalovitz

Queer Intelligibility and Autotheory by Rachel Lallouz

“Wake Work”: Thinking as Care in the Black Autotheoretical Writings of Christina Sharpe by Lauren Gabrielle Fournier

Autofiction, Autotheory, and the Neoliberal Contemporary by Marc Farrant

Essay

A Modest Proposal on Faculty Governance by Paul Allen Miller

Theory

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time by Saul Friedländer

Devin Thomas O-Shea reviews k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016) by Mark Fisher

Andrew S. Taylor reviews Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb by Kenneth Goldsmith

Interventions

Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Reyna Grande

Fiction

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews On the Campaign Trail by J. Bradley, Ten New Fairy Tales by Robert Kelly, and Wake in the Night by Laura Krughoff

Rebecca Cuthbert reviews Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-nan

Erin H. Davis reviews Tight Little Vocal Cords by Loie Rawding

Edward M. Bury reviews Oslo, Maine: A Novel by Marcia Butler

Voyo Gabrilo reviews House of the Ancients and Other Stories by Clifford Garstang

Diane Goodman reviews Sisterhood of the Infamous by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Erin H. Davis reviews The Trouble with Language by Rebecca Fishow

Kolby Harvey reviews The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova

Daniel Gonzalez reviews What’s on the Menu? by Chase Griffin

E-Feature

The Volunteer Negro by E. Ethelbert Miller

Memoir

Erin H. Davis reviews Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past by Debra Di Blasi

Loie Rawding reviews Dear DeeDee by Kat Meads

Poetry

Richard Jeffrey Newman reviews Contestable Truths, Incontestable Lies by Steven Sher

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews  A Map of the Heavens: Selected Poems, 1975–2017 by Janet Hamill

Marta López-Luaces reviews In the Margins/Al margen by Robert Kramer

Margot Farrington reviews Dead Shark on the N Train by Susana H. Case

Amy Homan reviews Tricks of Light: New and Selected Poems by Thaddeus Rutkowski

Eric Plaks reviews Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop ed. by Stephen Cramer

Evan Reynolds reviews Derrida’s In/Voice by Chris Tysh

Josh Williams reviews A Plan in Case of Morning by Phill Provance

Fred Muratori reviews Un- by Laurel Blossom

Sparrow reviews Collaborations by Greg Masters et al

Children’s Books

Ludy Rueda reviews Sleeping with the Light On by David Unger (review)

Printers and Poets

Charles Alexander interviews David Wilk

Scenes

An Interview with Ken Edwards and Brian Marley of Grand Iota

Poetics to Come

Why Poetics, Then? by Daniel T. O’Hara

The Departed

The All-Too-Human Departure of Jean-Luc Nancy by Irving Goh

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