This paper is a discourse analysis of the genre and discursive strategies of Li Ang’s erotic writing in Autobiography: A Novel (1999); it analyzes the dialogicity of form of erotic writing and considers its critical consciousness. Unlike previous discussions which seem to have focused on “sex” or have originated from the viewpoint of feminism on personal observations of the historical and social context, this paper argues that Li attempts to deploy a brand-new form of writing, so as to re-present the questions of sex, gender, and “woman” in this piece of erotic writing. Therefore a brand-new discourse analysis, “the form-ideological approach,” is required for Li’s Autobiography: A Novel. This paper finds that Li aims to question the canons of male historiography in terms of its epistemology, narrativity and historical narration by deploying the specific genre and discursive strategies of erotic writing; that is: (1) the genre of the novelized autobiography(whichisa blending offactand fiction);(2)narratorialmulti-voicedness; and (3) an iterational time-texture. Besides this, Li also emphasizes eroticism so as to dismantle the dogmas and norms of male historiography, thereby constructing an alternative historiography, the so-called “her-stories.” Based on the research findings, this paper concludes that the dialogicity of Li’s erotic writing echoes Bakhtinian descriptions of the language process of democratization. This process is, on the one hand, mobilized by the form of the polyphonic novel; on the other hand, it allows for the deconstruction the gender politics of male historiography while reconstructing the form of writing for the purpose of ideological political struggle.