%0 Journal Article
%T I Am What Is a Photograph: Photofiction as Performative Autoethnography
%A Tim Stephens
%J Cultural Studies £¿ Critical Methodologies
%@ 1552-356X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1532708618807244
%X This article is based on one fact about the author¡¯s biography and one retold memory of the author¡¯s mother. Each relates to the conception of the author. It takes the form of a performative autoethnography employing photofiction.1 The article specifically interrogates the grounded nature of subject identity in bodily experience, as matter, and chronology through speculative inquiry and the intersubjective relation, as themselves ¡°photographic,¡± mediated through language. However, notions of subject and experience, photograph and academic language are pushed to an extreme position until highly reflexive and to a point beyond literary metafiction. The article thus elaborates and enacts photofiction as autoethnography, replacing ¡°meta¡± thinking and representational thinking about events and memories, with the nonrepresentational, to write the real [self] as nondualistic: experiential data as nonphotography. The onto-epistemological position of the researcher, author, Subject, in relation to his or her own status is in fact a photofiction
%K performative autoethnography
%K photofiction
%K nonphotography
%K subject
%K nonduality
%K photograph
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1532708618807244