Autotheory claims the personal against poststructuralism’s reduction of self to textuality

Evidence

It is autotheory’s unique triumph to marry the truly personal, private, and/or confessional (the private details of life that Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva shy away from) with critique, to insist against the poststructuralist reduction of self purely to a textuality that produces a distancing kind of impersonality by ultimately maintaining divisions between the public and private. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 286

Categorization

• XREF: This pro-autotheory stance (from critic Ralph Clare) gives the reader the strongest version of the argument she must contend with in her fight against Antitheory.