IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 305: It's a Queer Time: Trespassing the Boundaries of Chrononormativity, III - Erase / Rewind
Monday 5 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Blake Gutt, Department of French, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 305-a | The False Beginnings of a Medieval Transgender Woman: Eleanor Rykener's Right to a Story (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 305-b | Sex and Gender Identity: Blurring Boundaries in Chivalric Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Abstract | Chrononormativity is a term coined by Elizabeth Freeman to define 'the use of time to organize individual human bodies towards maximum productivity (…) through particular orchestrations of time. (…) Schedules, calendars, time zones' (2010: 3). We see this at work in parcelling of history through periodization and localization in given spaces. These become boundaries and barriers to a more fluid understanding of the Middle Ages. If the Middle Ages is 'age of the medium' (Jørgensen, 2015:9), both in regards to materialities and historical witness, it might mean that the period is also a queer time, in it its fluidity as well as in the way historiography articulates present (mis)conceptions of the past. This third session explores erasures in historiography and the opportunities for new meanings that rewind and re-interpret history in the light of present issues can present. |