Ármann Jakobsson. Masculinity and politics in Njáls saga - Revision history

Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir at 12:06, 29 January 2016

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			Ármann kannar hin flóknu tengsl kyngervis, kynhneigðar og félagsmótunar í Njáls sögu með hliðsjón af hugmyndum um karlmennsku. Oft eru bornar brigður á karlmennsku persóna, sérstaklega á það við um Njál, og jafnframt eru hinsegin þættir í persónum undirstrikaðir. Þetta bendir til þess að undir liggi kynjahugmyndir sem eru alls ekki strangt afmarkandi, heldur fljótandi og jafnvel mótsagnakenndar, og að í gegnum þær komi sagan á framfæri gagnrýni á það þjóðfélag sem hún lýsir. Ármann greinir hvernig að því er virðist fyrirmyndarkarlmennska birtist í sögunni (skeggvöxtur, kyngreinandi klæðaburður, tilfinningatjáning og ást og bræðralag milli karla) og sýnir hvernig sagan dregur þessar birtingarmyndir í efa fremur en að styrkja þær. Mikilvægi þessara karlmennskuhugmynda (ásamt hetjuhugsjóninni með sínum niðurnjörvuðu kynhlutverkum) er síðan „ýkt úr hófi, þar til þær verða nánast merkingarlausar, af þeim sem nota þær til þess að berja á andstæðingum sínum“ (bls. 201). Niðurstaða Ármanns er sú að í Njálu sé hugmyndum um fyrirmyndar karlmennsku og samkynhneigð slegið saman til þess að sýna á gagnrýninn og kaldhæðinn hátt hvernig samfélag sögunnar lítur á (ó)karlmannlega tjáningu og hegðun. Þetta sýnir enn og aftur hve sagan er margslungin og skýrir vinsældir hennar sem bókmenntaverks.

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	* ''Icelandic~~/English~~ translation:''		* ''Icelandic translation:'' Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir

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Eleonora Pancetti at 21:44, 10 November 2015

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	* '''Author''':		* '''Author''': Jakobsson, Ármann
	* '''Title''':		* '''Title''': Masculinity and Politics in ''Njáls Saga''
	* '''Place, Publisher''':		* '''Published in''': Viator 28
	* '''Year''':		* '''Place, Publisher''': Brepols
	* '''Pages''':		* '''Year''': 2007
			* '''Pages''': 191–215
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	* '''Reference''': ~~''MLA''~~		* '''Reference''': Jakobsson, Ármann: “Masculinity and Politics in Njáls Saga.” Viator 28
			(2007): 191–215
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	* '''Key words''':		* '''Key words''': gender, sexuality, male stereotypes, unmanliness



	==Annotation==		==Annotation==

			Ármann Jakobsson examines the complex relationships between gender, sexuality and
			social politics in Njáls saga in regard to conceptions of (un)manliness. The frequent
			questioning of masculinity, especially the masculinity of Njáll, as well as the
			reinforcement of sexual Otherness on the part of many of the saga’s characters belies a
			far less rigid, if not contradictory and fragile, system of gender expression, in which the
			saga casts a critical gaze on the society of its own construction. Jakobsson analyzes Njáls
			saga’s usage of seemingly paradigmatic expressions of masculinity (possession of facial
			hair, gendered clothing, displays of emotion and homoerotic or homosocial love) to
			show how the saga, rather than reinforcing the importance of these paradigms of
			masculinity actually problematizes them. These social indicators of masculinity, in
			addition to the gendered constraints of heroism, in turn are “exaggerated to the point of
			meaninglessness by those who use the ideal as a weapon against their opponents” (p.
			201). Jakobsson concludes that Njáls saga conflates queerness and ideal masculinity as a
			means of placing ironic scrutiny on the saga society’s treatment of (un)masculine
			expression and behavior, serving as a further testament to the saga’s complexity and
			enduring popularity as a self-conscious and well-wrought literary achievement.

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Jón Karl Helgason at 12:05, 9 January 2015

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