{"id":1009,"date":"2016-03-28T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T04:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2016-03-28T00:06:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T04:06:31","slug":"claiming-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/03\/28\/claiming-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Claiming Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In chapter eleven of bell hooks\u2019 <em>Teaching to Transgress<\/em> she quotes a poem by Adrienne Rich, which states \u201cWords impose themselves, take root in our memory against our will.\u201d (hooks, 167) This quote illuminates the ways in which dominant narratives infiltrate and undermine a multitude of identities. Carson\u2019s <em>Autobiography of Red<\/em> reinvents and reimagines a Greek myth grounded in machismo and transforms the story into a narrative about queer love. Carson\u2019s shift of this story humanizes the ways in which queer narratives are typically understood. Although the protagonist experiences different traumas, the novel does not end in tragedy. Carson creates multifaceted characters that shape one another throughout the story. Geryon is empowered through self-discovery and the recognition that he is not alone. In the last chapter, Geryon states \u201cWe are amazing beings\u2026neighbors of fire\u201d (Carson, 146) illustrating the power of his existence and others that occupy spaces similar to him. hook\u2019s discusses the ways in which marginalized peoples take oppressive language and create a type of counter-hegemonic speech thus finding liberation through language. (hooks, 175) In a similar way, Carson makes stories such as Geryon\u2019s visible and forcibly claims space that has not been given to marginalized queer identities in canonical literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In chapter eleven of bell hooks\u2019 Teaching to Transgress she quotes a poem by Adrienne Rich, which states \u201cWords impose themselves, take root in our memory against our will.\u201d (hooks, 167) This quote illuminates the ways in which dominant narratives infiltrate and undermine a multitude of identities. Carson\u2019s Autobiography of Red reinvents and reimagines a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/03\/28\/claiming-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Claiming Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}