In this workshop
we will reconsider the widely held understanding of autobiography as a
performative utterance that brings the self into being by engaging with
Eve Sedgwick’s theory
of the ‘periperformative utterance’. Is there such a thing as
periperformative autobiography? And if so, what forms might it take? Is
this one way of understanding the autofictional work of a feminist
writer like Chris Kraus? What forms of textuality, aesthetics,
mediation and materiality does the periperformative utterance require?
And what is its relationship to theories of gender, affect, sexuality
and autobiography?
- Lehrende/r: Anna Thiemann
Semester: WiSe 2020/21