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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
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-aGregory of Tours' Libri Miraculorum: A Mystical Travel
(Language: English)
Edmar Checon de Freitas, Departamento da História, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
Index terms: Hagiography, Mentalities, Religious Life
Paper 1322-bNarratives and Alterity: The Travel to the Canary Islands
(Language: English)
Vânia Leite Fróes, Scriptorium, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais e Ibéricos, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
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.