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This chapter discusses the ways that the “outlaw” genres (Kaplan), like those of Hurston, Lorde, Allison, Johnson, and Lim, are archival acts, assigning significance to an individual life through highly stylized and subversive performative writing. By examining what each text does as much as what it says, the analyses in this project highlight the ways writers “write out of turn” and dismantle the power structures that serve to reify dominant narratives of self, women, and autobiography. For the analyses of this book, rhetorical performativity as an analytic provides insights into the rhetorical strategies of authors’ writing across genres and provides contexts for creating transgressive archives in life writing. This chapter addresses the theoretical implications of developments in auto/biography studies, such as research fragments of autobiography, that are important to the methodology of analysis in this book. This chapter also discusses the ways that new and emerging writers are building on the works of these writers, further challenging what it means to write autobiographically. Writers such as Maggie Nelson, Zadie Smith, Suzanne Scanlon, and Eve Ewing are among many contemporary writers performing innovative autobiographical writing right now. |
