The Making of Queer Visionary Discourses

• David Carrillo Rangel ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitetet i Bergen
• Localización: Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages / Pablo Acosta García (ed. lit.), David Carrillo Rangel (ed. lit.), Delfi-Isabel Nieto Isabel (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-26029-3, págs. 151-201
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The voices of visionaries, especially in the Late Middle Ages, were deployed in discursive formations, engaged by and engaging in society and societal concerns. In this chapter, I discuss the construction of these discourses in The Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden and I compare it to the artwork of Erinç Seymen, aiming to queer how the historical past is looked at, and to re-orient the way we consider Saint Birgitta historically. The concept of ‘discourse’ used here is indebted to the works of J.W. Scott (1992) and Ernst van Alphen (‘Symptoms of Discursivity: Experience, Memory, Trauma’. In Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999), and understands the concept in relation to experience, memory and the way it produces contexts and positions subjects. I argue that this discursivity was deployed in different media and processes that play with accepted images and literary forms. By touching their users in unexpected and performative ways, they open up queer spaces by acknowledging and showing alternatives ways of being and becoming in their given contexts.