ABSTRACT This article offers new, queer readings of a series of encounters between knights and cannibal giants in medieval texts in French and Latin. After situating them in their wider literary context, it focuses on episodes from three texts concerned with the origins of the British Isles: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (ca.1136–38), Wace’s Roman de Brut (ca.1150–55), and the Roman de Perceforest (ca.1340–44). Drawing on psychoanalytic and queer theory, I argue that the encounter with the cannibal giant troubles the heterosexual courtly subject due to cannibalism’s intimate relationship with queerness. Close readings reveal these encounters, from wrestling matches to armed duels, to be rich in homoerotic language and imagery. Yet, rather than merely corroborating and dramatizing the modern theory, the texts push it further in ways that ask probing questions about medieval constructions of heterosexual subjectivity, namely in their striking representations of the knights flirting back with their giant foes. Thus, cannibalism emerges from these analyses as a revealing commentary on heterosexuality and on its melancholic structure, which disavows same-sex desires that cannot, for all that, ever be fully excluded.

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食人者：历史巨人不列颠尼亚号，罗曼·德·布鲁特和罗曼·德·波斯森林中的巨骑士遭遇中的食人和怪异

摘要本文以法语和拉丁语的中世纪文字提供了有关骑士和食人巨人之间一系列遭遇的新奇的读物。在将它们放在更广泛的文学语境中之后，它着重介绍了与不列颠群岛起源有关的三个文本中的片段：蒙茅斯的史托里亚·雷古姆·不列颠尼亚号的杰弗里（约1136–38），瓦斯的罗曼·德·布鲁特（约1150–55）。 ，以及Roman de Perceforest（ca.1340–44）。我基于心理分析和酷儿理论，认为与食人巨人的相遇使异性恋的臣民感到困扰，原因是食人族与酷儿的亲密关系。仔细阅读可以发现，从摔跤比赛到武装决斗，这些遭遇丰富于同性恋语言和意象。然而，不仅仅是证实和戏剧化现代理论，文本以询问中世纪中世纪异性主观结构的方式进一步推动了这一过程，即以其对骑士挥舞着巨大敌人的惊人表现。因此，食人主义从这些分析中浮现出来，成为对异性恋及其忧郁结构的揭示性评论，它拒绝了无法完全排除的同性恋欲望。