Frustrating the a??Ia??: Critical Dialogic Reflexivity with Personal Voice

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The essay demonstrates dialogic reflexivity in performance, performative response, and engaging criticism through the analysis of two stories. The first story, set in a bar, recounts a verbal homophobic assault, specifically crafted to examine the workings of masculinity, homophobia, and shame. The second story, a metanarrative of the first story, analyzes the ongoing process of uncovering the critical absences, fallibility, and tragic dimensions to how I have narrated this a??bar story.a?? Using these two stories to ground the discussion, this essay asserts an ethical framework for critically and reflexively dialoguing personal narrative, auto-ethnographic, and autobiographical scholarship. Marking the inherent fallibility of self-accounting and the need for a dialogic reflexive processing of personal accounts, this essay calls for us to move beyond mere critical textualizing strategies of personal narrative to theorize the ethical dimensions of how we audience, engage, and respond to personal claims to experience. Asserting a guiding framework of fallibility and comic musement in processing the a??I,a?? this essay argues that the concepts of a??critical frustrationa?? and a??critical tragedya?? offer productive tools for ethically guiding dialogic engagement with a??one'sa?? claimed experience. Furthermore, conceptions of self-reflexivity and intersectionality are reframed as guiding ethics, ongoing collaborative processes, rather than isolated standards or criteria for evaluating a personal account. The result is an ethical argument for rejecting critical tragedy in favor of a model of critical frustration.View full textDownload full textKeywordsReflexivity, Personal Narrative, Critical Frustration, Ethics, IntersectionalityRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2011.602707