Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022)
The paper examines contemporary autofictional texts about queer identities in the context of current debates on identity politics. Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizons’s Blutbuch (2022) reflect queer identities in the form of transgressive and transitory writing whi...
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| description | The paper examines contemporary autofictional texts about queer identities in the context of current debates on identity politics. Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizons’s Blutbuch (2022) reflect queer identities in the form of transgressive and transitory writing which blurs the boundaries between academic and fictional discourse and ultimately leads to a hybridisation of the narrative. Both texts use autofiction as a means of epistemic disruption, that is as a critical questioning of Western epistemology, especially with regard to academic discourse (Preciado) and cultural memory (de l’Horizon). The ‘I’ of the autofiction becomes the catalyst of an anti-hegemonic knowledge and anti-hegemonic discourse and thus performs a core concern of identity politics in a literary way, namely the claiming of a subject and speaker position in the hegemonic discourse. At the same time, the aporias of identity politics discourses also become clear when looking at both autofictions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fcfe0e08185e45af85fb8dd2f2ccaf732025-01-27T14:24:49ZengLodz University PressCzytanie Literatury2299-74582449-83862024-12-0113396610.18778/2299-7458.13.0325297Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022)Stephanie Bremerich0Leipzig UniversityThe paper examines contemporary autofictional texts about queer identities in the context of current debates on identity politics. Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizons’s Blutbuch (2022) reflect queer identities in the form of transgressive and transitory writing which blurs the boundaries between academic and fictional discourse and ultimately leads to a hybridisation of the narrative. Both texts use autofiction as a means of epistemic disruption, that is as a critical questioning of Western epistemology, especially with regard to academic discourse (Preciado) and cultural memory (de l’Horizon). The ‘I’ of the autofiction becomes the catalyst of an anti-hegemonic knowledge and anti-hegemonic discourse and thus performs a core concern of identity politics in a literary way, namely the claiming of a subject and speaker position in the hegemonic discourse. At the same time, the aporias of identity politics discourses also become clear when looking at both autofictions.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/czytanieliteratury/article/view/24727autofictionidentity politicsautotheorymemoryqueer studies |
| spellingShingle | Stephanie Bremerich Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) Czytanie Literatury autofiction identity politics autotheory memory queer studies |
| title | Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) |
| title_full | Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) |
| title_fullStr | Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) |
| title_short | Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) |
| title_sort | epistemic disruptions autofiction and identity politics in paul b preciado s can the monster speak 2020 and kim de l horizon s blutbuch 2022 |
| topic | autofiction identity politics autotheory memory queer studies |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/czytanieliteratury/article/view/24727 |
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