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Reimagining Masculinity and Violence in 'Game of Thrones' and 'A Song of Ice and Fire' (Hardcover)
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Reimagining Masculinity and Violence in 'Game of Thrones' and 'A Song of Ice and Fire' (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 76
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In this examination of violence and masculinity in George R. R.
Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television
adaptation Game of Thrones, Tobi Evans offers a queer reading that
revises the idea that the texts glorify violence. Moving from
monstrous men characters and sovereigns to female, disabled, and
genderqueer masculinities, Violent Fantasies understands the novels
and television series to offer a complex and ambiguous negotiation
of different types of violence. Deploying queer feminist
poststructuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to the acts of
violence that masculine characters use, Evans views hegemonic
violence as part of a destructive cycle wherein characters use
violence to dominate others but have their violence turned against
them in such a way that their bodies become disgusting and they are
unable to enter into systems of patriarchal reproduction. The only
characters who succeed in proliferating their values and knowledges
are those who use violence to care for others. These characters are
also threatened with a bodily undoing when they use violence, but
their bodily borders are secured because of their connections to
others and their queer kinship bonds. Violence transforms the body,
Evans argues, in ways that are both circular and ideologically
ambivalent.
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