Consorting with Stone: Lithic Sovereignty and Anticolonial Futurity in King Horn and Marie de France’s “Yonec”

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1215/00138282-8557949

Sarah-Nelle Jackson

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Abstract:This essay places Marie de France’s lai “Yonec” (ca. 1150–1200) and the anonymous Middle English romance King Horn (ca. 1250–1300) in conversation with critical Indigenous theories of relational, land-based sovereignty and resurgence. At first, “Yonec” and King Horn appear to reinscribe a Western form of sovereignty based on exclusive territorial control. Both works offer alternative models of sovereignty and self-determination, however, in their depictions of cooperative, lithic alliance between stone and female consorts. Adopting the term lithic sovereignty to describe the works’ relationbased sovereign imaginaries, this essay first follows the King Horn narrator’s depiction of Godhild’s hermetic retreat into stone when Saracens conquer her husband’s realm. Then it turns to the nameless lady of “Yonec” and her implausible escape from her jealous husband’s tower, facilitated by the very stone that had seemed to entrap her. Drawing on critical Indigenous studies, legal studies, and ecomaterialism, this essay concludes that both King Horn and “Yonec” offer a medieval British imaginary of lithic relational sovereignty that runs counter to teleological, naturalizing narratives of Euro-Western origins.

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摘要：本文将Marie de France的lai“Yonec”（约1150–1200年）和匿名的中古英语浪漫小说《King Horn》（约1250–1300年）与关于关系、陆地主权和复兴的批判性土著理论进行了对话。起初，“约内克”和霍恩国王似乎重新确立了西方基于专属领土控制的主权形式。然而，这两部作品都提供了主权和自决的替代模式，描绘了石头和女性配偶之间的合作、石器时代的联盟。本文采用了“石器时代的主权”一词来描述作品中基于关系的主权想象，首先遵循了霍恩国王叙述者对萨拉森人征服她丈夫的王国时，戈德封闭地撤退到石头中的描述。然后，它转向了“Yonec”的无名女士，以及她难以置信地逃离了她嫉妒的丈夫的塔楼，而正是这块石头似乎困住了她。根据批判性的土著研究、法律研究和生态材料主义，本文得出结论，霍恩国王和“约内克”都提供了中世纪英国人对石器时代关系主权的想象，这与欧洲-西方起源的目的论、自然化叙事背道而驰。

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