IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1225: Silence and Silencing, III: Queer Hearing and Listening
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Brittany Orton, Department of History, University of York Basil Price, Department of English, Arizona State University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jane Bonsall, School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures - English Literature, University of Edinburgh |
Paper 1225-a | Discipline and Discourse: Queer Possibilities and Outlaw Communities in Harðar Saga and Grettis Saga (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law, Sexuality |
Paper 1225-b | Camping Silence and Silencing Camp: Examining Critical Responses to the Narrator of the Roman de Silence (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Sexuality |
Paper 1225-c | 'As Bres dó ann sin': A Queer Reading of Cath Maige Tuired (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Social History |
Abstract | This is the third panel in a series on 'Silence and Silencing', which aim to interrogate absences, silences, and gaps within medieval sources and the discipline of Medieval Studies itself, in order to further our understanding of global networks in the Middle Ages. The late queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz argued that 'queerness is often transmitted covertly', existing as 'inneundo, gossip, [and] fleeting moments'. This panel counters scholarship that refuses or cannot read this eclectic archive by demonstrating how Old Norse, Old Irish, and Middle English texts gesture towards queer lives, politics, and possibilities. |