Distance in the Dark
I want to dedicate this close reading to focus on a few lines from chapter nine of Autobiography of Red. The chapter, for me, was one a bit more difficult to understand, but I hope by writing out the...
View ArticleVerse novels are actually pretty amazing
I was struck by our conversation in class surrounding the ending of chapter 1, “Justice” from An Autobiography of Red. I was wary of this book specifically because I thought it might be hard to...
View Articleoooo let the light in
I couldn’t help but notice that Geryon’s relationship with his mother is almost always signified by some sort of mention or source of light throughout the first part of the novel. To me, the presence...
View ArticleArt-obiography of Red
When Geryon learned to write, his mother asked his teacher at a parent-teacher conference if Geryon “ever [wrote] anything with a happy ending” (38). Hearing this, Geryon takes his paper from his...
View ArticleAutobiography is a Big Word
When Geryon first started writing his Autobiography , it struck me as important, because it took a step back from the scenic descriptions and started to define the truths of Geryon’s world. It reads,...
View ArticleWhat to do if nobody speaks your language?
As we have established in class, Geryon is an outcast. A little red winged monster, in a world full of humans who neither see the world the way he sees it, nor understand his way of seeing it. Humans...
View ArticleAnne Carson, you beautiful poet…
Wow. Just wow. After reading only the fourth page of Carson’s prose, that was all I could think. I am amazed by the way in which she paints such a clear picture of how Geryon experiences childhood, as...
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filling in the blanks
In Feeling Utopia, the reader is introduced to the idea that queerness, as a utopia, does not exist yet, and if it ever does, it will not be in our lifetime. It’s a “warm illumination of a horizon,” “a...
View Articlemaybe i’m not really queer…
No, this is not my self declaration of straightness and returning to the closet. However, I think that Feeling Utopia by Muñoz offers me another layer to think about my identity and how political it...
View ArticleFuck You, Telling Me That I’m Not Queer, Eat Shit and Fall off your High...
Dear Reader, I worked hard to be as queer as I am and I didn’t expect to have to defend my identity from another person who shares in my struggles. But here we fucking are. Fuck Muñoz and his “we are...
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