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Dissolution of True Knighthood: Queer Identity and Trauma in Calvino’s _The Nonexistent Knight_

The narration of Italo Calvino’s novel The Nonexistant Knight explores the aftermath of trauma in the queer body through the repeated use of mirrored images, contorted doubles, and illusion. In this translation by Archibald Colquhoun, the character Bradamante embodies elements of a non-binary gender identity through her status as a knight within Charlemagne’s army. InContinue reading “Dissolution of True Knighthood: Queer Identity and Trauma in Calvino’s _The Nonexistent Knight_”