IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1325: Silence and Silencing, IV: Silenced Women and Feminist Listening
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
Organisers: | Brittany Orton, Department of History, University of York Basil Price, Department of English, Arizona State University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Sarah McKeagney, Department of History, University of York |
Paper 1325-a | Silent Tongues, Speaking Bodies: Movement and Mediality in the Philomena Tale (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Women's Studies |
Paper 1325-b | Freeing the Fairy Queen: Subversive Readings of Romance's Silent Intertext (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Women's Studies |
Paper 1325-c | Mind the Gap!: Reading Conspicuous Silences in Feminist Retellings of Medieval Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Women's Studies |
Abstract | This is the fourth and final 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. This panel seeks to demonstrate how to hear women's voices in the medieval archive and to analyse what forms of speech are available to them. These papers close our discussion of silence in the Middle Ages by contemplating how a reader or listener of medieval texts might adapt and appropriate these texts for their own subversive political projects. |