Autobiogenography: Genomes and Life Writing

Abstract

This essay examines the genre of autobiogenography, where autobiography is now written from the molecular level upward. Autobiogenography documents a process of self-discovery mediated through knowledge of one's genetic makeup. It maps processes of self-fashioning and the making of a genosocial self. Individuals, while being aware of possessing “predictive” selves, occasionally seek to demonstrate the self's variation from the predictions.