Pure Violence: A Queer Autoethnographic Investigation into Personal Trauma

Secondly, my project brings collective visibility onto underrepresented subjects such as male anorexia nervosa, male-on-male rape, limerent attachment, and adult grooming. In this panorama, Pure Violence suggests a variety of expressive possibilities for traumatised individuals whose experiences are still undermined by taboos, stigma, and prejudice and who do not intend to endorse agendas of disempowering silence. Ultimately, the incorporation of confessional material alongside academic criticism bridges the gap between lived experience and doctoral research, between the self and scholarly discourses, between emotion and investigation.

I will enter the scope of the thesis as an academic investigator, as a life-writer, and as a queer human being with a history of disparate trauma in the hope that a wide readership will acknowledge the distressing character of unrepresented issues within gender and sexual minorities, such as non-cis genderqueer homosexuals.</p><p dir="ltr">The originality of the research lies in its eclectic methodology and its thematic concerns at once.

Indeed, taboo-laden and stigma-ridden themes such as male anorexia nervosa and male-on-male rape are unprecedentedly treated via a plurality of autobiographical strategies. The practice of autoethnography is pushed to its formal extremes by accommodating annotation, digression, audiovisuality, found material, free-verse poetry, and journalling.</p>