Authorship’s Wake examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of
the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes’s essay, “The Death of
the Author.” This critique has given rise to a body of writing
that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the
theoretical. Its archive consists of texts by writers who either
directly participated in this critique, as Barthes did, or whose
intellectual formation took place in its immediate aftermath. These
writers include some who are known primarily as theorists (Judith
Butler), others known primarily as novelists (Zadie Smith, David
Foster Wallace), and yet others whose texts are difficult to
categorize (the autofiction of Chris Kraus, Sheila Heti, and Ben
Lerner; the autotheory of Maggie Nelson). These writers share not
only a central motivating question – how to move beyond the
critique of the author-subject – but also a way of answering it:
by writing texts that merge theoretical concerns with literary
discourse. Authorship’s Wake traces the responses their work
offers in relation to four themes: communication, intention,
agency, and labor.
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