«Lo gay era cosa de sitios grandes»: metronormatividad, sexilio y agencia en dos novelas neorrurales españolas
This article presents a contrastive analysis of two novels, Bird’s Nest by Luis Maura and The stain by Enrique Aparicio Esnórquel. Both novels review, from an adult perspective, the so cialisation of their protagonists as adolescents and homosexual men in a rural space. The socialisation of the prot...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/44628 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.20254310956 https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/tropelias/article/view/10956 https://hdl.handle.net/10578/44628 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Agencia Homosexualidad Homosexuality Metronormatividad Metronormativity Neorural narrative Novela neorrural Sexilio |
| Sumario: | This article presents a contrastive analysis of two novels, Bird’s Nest by Luis Maura and The stain by Enrique Aparicio Esnórquel. Both novels review, from an adult perspective, the so cialisation of their protagonists as adolescents and homosexual men in a rural space. The socialisation of the protagonists will be shaped by a metronormative understanding of the relationship between the rural and the queer. This perspective views the urban space as a domain of sexual and affective diver gence and posits that the natural trajectory for rural LGTBI individuals is sexile. In these two novels there is a dialogue with this idea, either to confirm it, as will happen in Bird’s Nest, or to deconstruct it, as happens in The stain. The contrast between them demonstrates that the literary representation of sex-gender dissidence is not limited to accepting an imaginary that constrains the agency of queer people linked to rural areas to sexile. Rather, alternative ways of representing queer existences in non-urban spaces can be conceived |
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