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Some Knights are Dark and Full of Terror: The Queer Monstrous Feminine, Masculinity, and Violence in the Martinverse
Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2019-09-02 , DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2019.1679446
Tania Evans 1
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ABSTRACT Violence is intimately connected with the body, and in particular with male embodied masculinity, in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-forthcoming) and its television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011–2019). While many scholars and media commentators have decried the series’ depictions of aggression, in this essay I focus on intersections of violence and male embodiment to reveal a more complex negotiation of normative masculinity than has been acknowledged in existing scholarship. A psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer reading of Martinverse constructions of monstrous masculine violence – by some of the series most abhorrent characters – Joffrey Baratheon, Gregor Clegane, and Ramsay Bolton – indicate how it is critiqued by association with the monstrous feminine. This critique involves a circularity of horror wherein these monstrous men both enact abjection and are subjected to it, a process that reveals the inability of heteropatriarchal violence to produce anything but destruction. Specifically, I argue that the normative male body and phallic masculinity are foregrounded alongside the symbols of the monstrous feminine. These instances rupture the illusion that a stable and coherent masculine subjectivity can materialise through horrifying depictions of heteronormative masculinity.

中文翻译:

一些骑士是黑暗而充满恐惧的:马丁verse中的怪异的女性气质,阳刚之气和暴力

摘要乔治·RR·马丁(George RR Martin)的奇幻系列电影《冰与火之歌》(A Song of Ice and Fire,1996年出版)及其电视改编的《权力的游戏》(Game of Thrones,2011-2019年)中,暴力与身体尤其是男性的男性化有着密切的联系。尽管许多学者和媒体评论家都谴责了该系列对侵略的描述,但在本文中,我将重点放在暴力与男性表现的交集上,以揭示比现有学者所承认的更为复杂的规范男性气质的谈判。心理分析,女权主义和奇怪的读物,是由一系列最可憎的角色-乔弗里·巴拉森,格里戈尔·克雷甘和拉姆齐·博尔顿所著的马丁·弗朗西斯对男性强烈暴力的解释,表明了它如何与这种可怕的女性联系在一起。这种批评涉及恐怖的循环,其中这些可怕的男人都实施了赦免并遭受了赦免,这一过程揭示了异族家长暴力除了破坏之外无法产生任何东西。具体而言,我认为,规范的男​​性身体和阳具的阳刚气质是在巨大女性气质的象征旁边出现的。这些情况打破了一种幻想,即稳定而连贯的男性主观性可以通过恐怖地描述异规范男性气质来实现。
更新日期:2019-09-02
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