Friday, October 25, 2013

My ideas on transgenre

What is transgenre to me?
For me, transgenre is the the ability to set outside the box.  We, as human beings,  often must have the  ability to label. Labels allow us to class. Classification allows us to discriminate. Discrimination allows us to pedestal.  This is a continuous process of the human race.  We constantly look to be able to place things into boxes. Without order there is disorder. Disorder leads to disorganization,  which leads to chaos. As writers we have to ability to stand on that very thin rope we call order and chaos. Our generation has taken huge steps forward in the process of literature.  No longer are we writing in these five paragraph forms. Stories no longer beed a beginning,  middle and end. Character introductions are no longer necessary.  Text are allowed to have holes in them.  The plot is not going to be evident,  you MUST find it for yourself, and evidence might not be the same as their evidence. So far in this program I have read the insane styles of Kathy Acker, the broken narrative of Tea Oberht, the all knowing language of Gertrude Stein and the careful thinking of Jeannette Winterson. Each of these text, among many more have forced me to look at words and meanings differently. I had to detached meaning from words. I've learned ekphrasis style of writing.  Writing so that the words can try and emulate the picture.

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