Sexilio y tiempo

The migratory paths that are stereotypical of sexile are the core of some of the most recent manifestations of the so-called neorural literature or literatures of rurality. Under metronormative expectations, these narratives reproduce the spatial and temporal contrast between rural and urban queer lives, turning migration into a crucial element in queer studies. Drawing from the analysis of El Power Ranger rosa (Christo Casas, 2020) and La mancha (Enrique Aparicio, 2024), this paper analyses how time and space are intimately intertwined in the narrative trope of sexile. Both novels use the return of young queers to their villages as a pretext to thread temporal lines and perspectives in which we may identify the role of memory in identity, as well as the incoherence and fallibility of temporal linearity.