{"id":980,"date":"2016-03-25T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=980"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:39:20","slug":"joining-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/03\/25\/joining-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Autobiography of Red<\/em> is inventive by using synesthesia. It is inventive because it is a different form of language that makes the novel different from others and \u201c\u2026offers us not understanding but an affective reality that sets the conditions for interpretation\u201d (155, Georgis). In other words synthesis allows one to depict or think about situations in one\u2019s own way and to not be held down by legitimate or correct way of thought. The use of synesthesia in this novel serves to give clarity to the reader. It makes a more vivid image in the reader\u2019s mind to make fantasy seem more as a reality since senses are intertwining. For example, in the quote \u201cOutside the house a black January wind came flattening down from the top of the sky\u2026\u201d(35) the words \u201cblack\u201d and \u201cwind\u201d vivifies the feelings and images the novel creates in the reader\u2019s head. This is because seeing \u201cblack\u201d joined together with the feeling of \u201cwind\u201d on one\u2019s skin creates a cold and darkened sensation. Since this sensation or feeling is relatable to the reader synesthesia makes the reader feel that this fantasy book is no longer an imagination but a reality because enhancing senses to make true emotions allows the reader to relate to the novel. The novel is trying to collide a queer world as fantasy with a hetero normative world as reality through synesthesia. Since synthesis is used though, it keeps the novel fantasy and myth because one can\u2019t have \u201cblack wind\u201d. It keeps the novel queer.<\/p>\n

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Autobiography of Red is inventive by using synesthesia. It is inventive because it is a different form of language that makes the novel different from others and \u201c\u2026offers us not understanding but an affective reality that sets the conditions for interpretation\u201d (155, Georgis). In other words synthesis allows one to depict or think about situations … Continue reading Joining Worlds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2989,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","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\/980","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\/2989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}