Women's Contemporary Experimental Life Writing

我的论文将研究我所说的“共同构建”，这是一种在女性当代生活写作中引入理论、多媒体和辅助参考的拼凑技术。我认为，当代作家利用共同建构形成了一种新的经典，增殖了各种各样的女性身份概念，并产生了一种以前边缘化女性无法获得的真相效应。它将侧重于将档案的短暂性作为技术的关键和技术在扩大这些参考行为的潜力和扩大参与方面的影响。它将通过“过度分享”这个词来质疑这种写作的无效性，“过度分享”是一种厌恶女性的表达，暗指女性对个人经历的不恰当描述，以及这些主题所反对的持久的宏大叙事。关键研究问题：-共同建构如何产生“可信的受试者”？——新技术如何为共建创造条件？-为什么认同为女性的主体会有共同建构？-在这场运动中，哪些主题仍然超出了代表性的边缘？-像过度共享这样的计数器在削减以前未被代表的身份类别方面有多重要？我的主要作者将是：图形回忆录作家艾莉森·贝克德尔、回忆录作家玛吉·纳尔逊、博主杰基·王和虚构小说家克里斯·克劳斯。每位作者都以非传统的方式呈现女性主题，涉及种族、性、老龄化、性别和精神疾病。他们共同提供了具有文化意义的实验形式的美国代表，从局外人的立场产生“可信的主题”，创造了一个连贯的文学运动。我将通过仔细阅读和交叉的女权主义理论来分析它们。我的研究将建立在最近对生活写作的研究，以及颠覆性的真理理论的基础上。共同构建和过度分享的作者正在兴起，并跨越了手势在线自我呈现的概念，拼贴通过参考来源和额外的新用途提供了双重意义。我使用“共同构建”来为这些手势和拼贴技术提供一个总称，作为我确定的运动的特定叙事装置。身份将被解读为通过话语和真理的时间和文化概念的自我建构，在共同建构中展示由表演行为形成的表征。女权主义和数字理论也将与以女性为中心的技术驱动的民粹主义运动一起被考虑，这些民粹主义运动通过共同构建获得了吸引力，例如#MeToo和日常性别歧视。

My thesis will examine what I term 'co-construction', a bricolage technique introducing theory, multimedia, and secondary references, in women's contemporary life writing. I will argue that co-construction is used by contemporary authors forming a new canon, proliferating multi-farious conceptions of female identity and producing a truth effect previously unavailable to marginalised women. It will focus upon the inclusion of archival ephemera as key to the technique and the influence of technology in extending the potential for these referential acts and expanding participation. It will crucially interrogate the invalidation of this writing through the term 'oversharing,' a misogynistic expression connoting inappropriate female accounts of personal experience, and the enduring grand narratives these subjects are read against. Key research questions:- How does co-construction produce 'believable subjects'?- How is new technology creating the conditions for co-construction? - Why is co-construction particular to subjects identifying as women?- Which subjects remain beyond the margins of representation in this movement?- How significant are counters like oversharing in the curtailment of previously unrepresented identity categories?My primary authors will be: graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel, memoirist Maggie Nelson, blogger Jackie Wang and auto-fictional novelist Chris Kraus. Each author is significant for unconventional presentations of female subjects, intersecting with race, sexuality, aging, gender, and mental illness. Together they provide culturally significant American representations of experimental forms that produce 'believable subjects' from outsider positions, creating a coherent literary movement. I will analyse them through close readings and in light of intersectional feminist theory. My research will build on recent studies in life writing, alongside subversive theories of truth. Writers on co-construction and oversharing are emerging and span concepts of gestural online self-presentations, and collage providing double meaning through referential origin and additional new use. I use 'co-construction' to provide an umbrella term for these gestural and collage techniques as a narrative device specific to my identified movement. Identity will be read as self-constituting through discourse and temporal and cultural conceptions of truth, with representations formed of performative acts displayed in co-construction. Feminist and digital theory will also be considered alongside female-centric technologically driven populist movements gaining traction via co-construction, such as #MeToo and Everyday Sexism.