Book chapter
Shrug Off the Old Lies: Writing Decoloniality in and Through Critical Autoethnograhy with Helene Cixous
Creative Selves / Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy, pp.169-182
Creativity, Education and the Arts, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 1
2018
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Abstract
Shrug off the old lies, dare what you don’t dare … rejoice, rejoice in the terror, follow it where you’re afraid to go … take the plunge, you’re on the right trail!” (1991, 40) urges Hélène Cixous. This chapter takes up Cixous’ refusal to oblige and reproduce the colonial system in writing in an attempt to un/re/entangle autoethnographic writing practices in and around the colonial moment in which we find ourselves. In this paper I take poetic and performative approach to bring myself and Hélène Cixous into conversation to embody and project a dissonance with the colonial status quo to ‘shrug off the old lies’ and explore and experience what critical autoethnographic writing as decoloniality will do. Cixous’ insistence that writing be dangerous, affective and material all at once holds much hope for a critical, ethical, response-able yet resistant and decolonial autoethnography.
Details
- Title
- Shrug Off the Old Lies: Writing Decoloniality in and Through Critical Autoethnograhy with Helene Cixous
- Creators
- Elizabeth Mackinlay - University of Queensland
- Contributors
- S H Jones (Editor) - Monash UniversityM Pruyn (Editor) - Monash University
- Publication Details
- Creative Selves / Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy, pp.169-182
- Series
- Creativity, Education and the Arts
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Cham
- Edition
- 1
- Number of pages
- 14
- Identifiers
- 991013054801202368
- Copyright
- (C) The Editor(s) and The Author(s) 2018
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter