In the Middle: Queer intentions in "El rapto del Santo Grial" (1984) and "Historia del Rey Transparente" (2005)
ABSTRACT: This article examines non-normative figurations of the Middle Ages in two contemporary Spanish novels: Paloma Díaz-Mas’ “El rapto del Santo Grial” and Rosa Montero’s “Historia del rey transparente”. Drawing on Carolyn Dinshaw’s notion of a “queer touch across time”, this study focuses on h...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/108667 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108667 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 821.134.2Díaz-Mas, Paloma7rap.07 821.134.2Montero, Rosa7his.07 821.134.2-3:7.035.3 Queer Studies Spanish Fiction Postmodernity Medievalism Arthurian cycle Estudos Queer Ficção narrativa espanhola Pós-modernidade Medievalismo Ciclo artúrico Literatura Literatura española e hispanoamericana Prosa Escritores 5505.10 Filología 6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias |
| Sumario: | ABSTRACT: This article examines non-normative figurations of the Middle Ages in two contemporary Spanish novels: Paloma Díaz-Mas’ “El rapto del Santo Grial” and Rosa Montero’s “Historia del rey transparente”. Drawing on Carolyn Dinshaw’s notion of a “queer touch across time”, this study focuses on how chronological narrative emplotment of conventional historiography is "bent" and even "broken", as the two novels court a postmodern penchant for anachronism, non-linearity, irony, pastiche and “strangeness” that refuses to understand past and present as discrete and distinct. Both Paloma Díaz-Mas and Rosa Montero’s novels are presented as rehearsing familiar myths and stories – the Arthurian cycle, the Holy Grail, the heroic quest – in order to advance alternative, feminist inflected versions critical of a hetero-patriarchal system whose naturalised grounding in the Middle Ages continues to haunt the present. |
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