\u201cWhat is time made of?\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cTime isn\u2019t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Autobiography of Red <\/span><\/i>warps time in a different manner than our other texts have. With <\/span>Cereus Blooms at Night<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Written on the Body<\/span><\/i>, and even <\/span>LOCA<\/span><\/i>, time has moved non-chronologically, shifting between past and present fluidly (in its prose), but sometimes abruptly in execution. Here, however, time moves from past to present, Geryon and Herakles age, and life continues on. From the wired telephone to the television, society has advanced as well. Despite the linear progression of the story, however, something about the dynamic of time is still off. These characters are not originally of the time in which this narrative is set. They are figures from the past that have been thrust into the future, remolded to fit in that world, but still inherently their original selves. In retelling this myth, Carson has suggested that these characters can \u2013and do\u2013 exist independently from time, and can live at <\/span>any <\/span><\/i>time \u2013just as queer people <\/span>have<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>do<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In this way, Carson has queered time by weaving the past and present together (merging ancient myth with present time), and has also rendered time irrelevant (also queering time, but differently). The second example of queer time \u2013in which time means nothing\u2013 is not only evident in the narrative composition, but also thematically within the story. Geryon is not only fixated on what time is and why, but his main hobby \u2013photography\u2013 is <\/span>disrupting<\/span><\/i> time by pausing and preserving it. With his photos, the \u201cthen\u201d becomes permanent through the photograph. That moment is then able to occupy a type of existence in continuity for the rest of time, not just when the moment originally happened, just as Herakles and Geryon occupy a time period in this narrative long past when their original myth takes place. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWhat is time made of?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTime isn\u2019t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.\u201d\u00a0 Autobiography of Red warps time in a different manner than our other texts have. With Cereus Blooms at Night and Written on the Body, and even LOCA, time has moved non-chronologically, shifting between … Continue reading Queer here, now, then, there<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-class-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","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\/5605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}