Tales of Conde: Autoethnography and the Body Politics of Performative Writing

In: Cultural studies - critical methodologies, Band 11, Heft 6, S. 586-595

Abstract

In this performance autoethnography I am talking about the "new writing" that is everywhere, but still, it is also nowhere. This is also about Conde, a poor Black Brazilian soccer fan. Mixing together stories I wrote for my master thesis, memories, notes, and 'leftovers' of my field work, my lived experiences, plus six years of my life as grad student at the University of Illinois, I am looking for ways to decolonize inquiry; to decolonize academia. This performance discusses and interrogates forms of representation, knowledge production and experience, method and theory, about the other. All of these issues are pertinent to any field of knowledge which deals with issues of social justice in the lives of human beings.