TY - JOUR
T1 - My dysphoria blues
T2 - Or why I cannot write an autoethnography
AU - O'Shea, Saoirse
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - In this essay, I would like to ask if we are concerned with writing about difference or writing differently. I attempt to present an account of my on-going experience of dysphoria and consider how I write about that experience. I reveal how my writing has no epiphany, is repetitive and in its characterless depiction of others is a two-dimensional, monologue that fails the conventions of an evocative autoethnographic account. My writing is ‘bad writing’ but what should become of it? Does a concern with style, whether or not over content, based on taste preclude some stories and different ways of writing? Should I be excluded from academe and silenced, or can room be found for a tasteless account like mine? I end my essay by provocatively owning the label of bad writing.
AB - In this essay, I would like to ask if we are concerned with writing about difference or writing differently. I attempt to present an account of my on-going experience of dysphoria and consider how I write about that experience. I reveal how my writing has no epiphany, is repetitive and in its characterless depiction of others is a two-dimensional, monologue that fails the conventions of an evocative autoethnographic account. My writing is ‘bad writing’ but what should become of it? Does a concern with style, whether or not over content, based on taste preclude some stories and different ways of writing? Should I be excluded from academe and silenced, or can room be found for a tasteless account like mine? I end my essay by provocatively owning the label of bad writing.
KW - Memory and forgetting
KW - repetition and similitude
KW - transgender and transsexuality
KW - writing differently and bad writing
U2 - 10.1177/1350507618791115
DO - 10.1177/1350507618791115
M3 - Article
VL - 50
SP - 38
EP - 49
JO - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
SN - 1350-5076
IS - 1
ER -