Our academic identities are constructed performatively through writing. In this article, I use the concept of citationality to examine two literacy autobiographies: one by a published writer and one written by a student of mine. My reading of these narratives exposes a connection between the citing of academic sources and the mechanisms that underlie the construction of new identities.
literacy narrative, literacy autobiography, academic discourse, writing, performativity, citationality, identity, Judith Butler, David Bartholomae, Peter Elbow
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