{"id":983,"date":"2016-03-27T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=983"},"modified":"2016-03-27T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:08:50","slug":"troubling-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2016\/03\/27\/troubling-adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubling Adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we\u2019ve discussed in class,\u00a0Autobiography of Red <\/em>is an extremely inventive and poetic novel in a vast multitude of ways. However, I want to focus on the use of adjectives , specifically \u2018red\u2019, in conversation with Dina Georgis\u2019s literary essay. From the very beginning of the novel the use of the word \u2018red\u2019 becomes symbolic in terms of Geryon\u2019s queer identity. Carson writes, \u201cTotal facts known about Geryon. Geryon was a monster everything about him was red,\u201d (Carson, 37). Now, how can a person represent a color? ‘Red’ in this sense doesn\u2019t so much describe the actual color of something, but more so describes the ostracization and queerness of Geryon\u2019s character. This can prove troubling to the literal reader and confuses the meaning of adjectives in general. Throughout the entirety of the novel, Carson continues to use \u2018red\u2019 to describe things that don\u2019t actually have color in order to fully engrain this redness or queerness into the audience’s brain. For example she says, \u201c\u2026Bolts of wind like slaps of wood and the bitter red drumming of wing muscle on air\u2026\u201d (Carson, 145). Because drumming cannot really have a color, this proves troubling to the reader, and makes one question the idea of adjectives in general. And if this \u201credness\u201d directly means \u201cqueerness\u201d, then Autobiography of Red<\/em>\u00a0also troubles queer identities. In her essay, Georgis says, \u201cRed is not itself identity\u2026it is the substance of confusing affects and physic conflicts from which signification is possible\u2026\u201d (Georgis, 158). Therefore leading one to believe that there is so much more to an identity than simply the label ‘queer’. This inventiveness of the troubling nature of adjectives serves to prove the troubling nature of the word queer in itself. By troubling something that is already seen as troubling, Carson\u2019s novel continually proves to be innovative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we\u2019ve discussed in class,\u00a0Autobiography of Red is an extremely inventive and poetic novel in a vast multitude of ways. However, I want to focus on the use of adjectives , specifically \u2018red\u2019, in conversation with Dina Georgis\u2019s literary essay. From the very beginning of the novel the use of the word \u2018red\u2019 becomes symbolic … Continue reading Troubling Adjectives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","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\/983","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\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}