Connecting Disconnections: Towards a Precarious Subject

• Autores: Alexandre Privat
• Localización: Ler a Idade Média hoje: fontes, texto e tradução / coord. por Tânia de Azevedo, Maria Filomena Louro, 2017, ISBN 9789897553233, págs. 49-63
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In taking the example of a contemporary medievalist historical novel such as Adam Thorp's Hodd (2009), the purpose of this article is to offer a reflection about the precarity of linking, understood as a tension between disconnection and connection which affects all types of bonds including familial filiation and political affiliation. Hodd is concerned with the task of connecting two usually opposes scales, intimate filiation and English collective mythology through a revisionist approach to the Robin Hood legend. By imitating the genre of Christian confession, the novel presents the reader with a "dis/connected" narrative and subject, whose paradoxical location stands between directness and mediateness, denial and acknowledgement, separation and reparation.