Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge

This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors' entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land and sea-scapes of Newfoundland as integral to their thinking, theorizing, and writing. The authors draw on feminist, trans, queer, critical race, Indigenous, decolonial, and posthuman theories in order to examine the relationships between origins, memories, place, identities, bodies, pasts, and futures. The chapters address a range of concerns, among them love, memory, weather, bodies, vulnerability, fog, myth, ice, desire, hauntings, and home.

Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, cultural geography, folklore, and anthropology, as well as those working in autoethnography, life writing, and island studies.

Brings cutting edge work in feminist geographies, feminist posthumanisms, feminist materialisms, trans studies, critical race theories, and Indigenous studies into conversation with one another Uses a collaborative autoethnographic approach Blends critical and creative writing strategies, creating texts which are both critical and lyrical

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Sonja Boon is Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Lesley Butler is a Master of Gender Studies candidate, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Daze Jefferies is a Master of Gender Studies Candidate, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Islands of the Imagination.- Part 1: Origins.- 2. Myths: Fishy.- 3. Hauntings: Love.- 4. Histories: Roots.- 5. Memories: Mud.- 6. Futures: Unfrozen.- Part II: Geographies.- 7. Land: Landscape.- 8. Water: Flooding Memory.- 9. Weather: Fog Trouble.- 10. Erosion: Fugitivity.- 11. Place: Re/Mapping.- Part III: Languages.- 12. Colonialism: Ruins.- 13. Histories: Stitching Theory.- 14. Proximity: Silence.- 15. Bodies: S/kinships.- Part IV: Longings.- 16. Desire: Mummeries.- 17. Home: Islandness.- 18. Vulnerability: Refusal.- 19. Intimacy: Torn.- 20. Belongings: Stumble.