Autotheoretical Potentialities and Liabilities: Interview with Alex Brostoff by Salomé Honório
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This conversation breaches the reification and commodification of autotheory across the humanities, and challenges its dominant, Anglocentric definitions. Rather than closing inonautotheory’s exact nature, it reemphasizes instead its historical conditions of emergence and its modes of transnational circulation, as well as the tensions underlying comparative and intercultural analysis of autotheoretical practices. Alex Brostoff’s work has consistently examined and enlivened the intertextual and inter-subjective stakes of autotheory as praxis; here, the conversation turns towards the possibility of complicatingautotheory’sown genealogies and trajectories, through the study of further archives of experimental self-narrative, and with a focus on current debates in Latin American contexts.
Authors: Salomé Honório, Alex Brostoff
Institutions: University of Lisbon, Georgetown University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7204456241