‘All Men Must Die, but We Are Not Men’: Eastern Faith and Feminine Power in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones

Hunter, Mikayla

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25041-6_7

Queenship and the Women of Westeros 2020

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25041-6_7

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‘All Men Must Die, but We Are Not Men’: Eastern Faith and Feminine Power in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones

Mikayla Hunter

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An emerging body of opinion cites the Daenerys subplot in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-) as a white savior narrative. This article argues against this. Martin presents his emblematic medievalist Occident as equally barbaric as his Orient, disabling the Manichean colonialist allegory some scholars perceive in his work. Although Daenerys certainly thinks like a colonialist savior, such discourse makes most sense as Bakhtinian image of a language, exhibited by Martin in concert with depictions of the intractable problems her actions cause, to mount a polemic authorial critique of colonialist literature. Support for this reading can be found elsewhere in Martin’s work, in which he frequently critiques uncritical espousals of literary tropes, and in his careful moral variegation of the peoples Daenerys conquers.

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