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Disability is Coming
Author:Brandie D. Reed,University of Wyoming. Department of English
Published on 2014 by

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Book Description :

In this thesis I examine the intersection of disability, gender, and adaptation in George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series and the television adaptation of this series through HBO's Game of Thrones. Few academic articles have been written on George R.R. Martin's work, and those have focused on topics such as philosophy and catastrophe. This thesis aims to expose the narrative possibilities of displacement concerning disability as opposed to the visual aesthetics maintained with the adaptation of those disabilities in the television series. The popularity of both the novels and the series reveal a culture intrigued by the Martin's characters and the |medieval| society he has created. It is this popularity, and the fact that three of the main characters deal with disability that I have chosen to closely examine two of those characters in Jaime and Tyrion as they represent varying aspects of disability and are, in turn, adapted to the small screen. George R.R. Martin's novels provide the reader with a place to explore the emotional crisis of males entrenched in an overtly masculine society but affected by the difference created through their impairment. Contracted and congenital disabilities force these two characters to fight against hegemonic male stereotypes in their fictional world while their visual adaptations simultaneously fight and concede to the hegemonic attitudes towards disability in our culture.