IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1322: Travels, Identity, and Narrative: Three Points of View on Medieval Times
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Scriptorium - Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
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Organiser: | Vânia Leite Fróes, Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
Moderator/Chair: | Lenora Pinto Mendes, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro |
Paper 1322-a | Gregory of Tours' Libri Miraculorum: A Mystical Travel (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Paper 1322-b | Narratives and Alterity: The Travel to the Canary Islands (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Mentalities, Social History |
Abstract | We shall explore the relations between the narrative genre and the production of identities, by comparing travels in diverse times. These travels shall be viewed through double meaning: metaphorical and concrete. The uprooting and displacement provided by the travels lead to estrangement of the self and to perception of the other; an important field for the study of identities. The hagiographic texts of Gregório de Tours, which suggest a mystical transposition of the Christian, the Arthurian novels, in which the love experiences construct subjectivities, and the narrative of the travel to the Canary Islands (Le Canarien), which refers to the encounter of the other and a new view of the Christian traveller's self, shall all be taken into consideration. |