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Though autotheory formally entered feminist critical discourse with the publication of Nelson‘s 2015 text  The Argonauts  as a practice that takes on first-person, subjective, autobiographical perspectives to decenter and challenge hegemonic critical theories, several critical movements led to the rise of autotheory. In this paper, I analyze the contexts and influences surrounding both New Narrative and French feminism post-1960 before posting experimental writer Kathy Acker’s unique position between these movements in her 1978 novel,  Kathy Goes to Haiti . If autotheory sutures together the author and theory, then Kathy Acker predicts and enacts autotheory by enmeshing her body into the theoretical conception of her autobiographical novel.  Kathy Goes to Haiti  lays important groundwork preceding autotheory and forges a new linguistic form at the nexus of language, disability, and sexuality studies. I call this nexus in Acker “feminine cognitive embodiment.” Acker’s feminine cognitive embodiment fuses the female body and mental states between traditional boundaries of language. I intend to historicize  Kathy Goes to Haiti  as an autotheoretical text that preceded works like Chris Kraus’ 1997  I Love Dick  and Maggie‘s  The Argonauts , and in doing so I analyze the ways Acker’s ex-centric language, madness, and pornography anticipate the autotheoretical turn.

“I’m a Person like Any Goddamn Man’s a Person”: Feminine Cognitive Embodiment in Kathy Goes to Haiti