My dysphoria blues: Or why I cannot write autoethnography

O'Shea, Saoirse Caitlin (2018). My dysphoria blues: Or why I cannot write autoethnography. Management Learning, 50(1) pp. 38–49.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618791115

Abstract

n 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.

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