Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022)

Stephanie Bremerich

doi:10.18778/2299-7458.13.03

Autor

Stephanie Bremerich Leipzig University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.13.03

Słowa kluczowe:

autofiction, identity politics, autotheory, memory, queer studies

Abstrakt

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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Stephanie Bremerich - Leipzig University

Dr. Stephanie Bremerich Research Assistant in Modern German literature und literary theory at the Department of German Studies at Leipzig University. She studied German Language and Literature, History of Art, and Comparative Literature in Leipzig and Prague. Her fields of research include gender relations in modernity and avantgarde, theories and practices of authorship and autofiction, and representation of deviance and poverty across media.

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