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Steel as the Answer?: Viking Bodies, Power, and Masculinity in Anglophone Fantasy Literature 2006-2016

Steel as the Answer?: Viking Bodies, Power, and Masculinity in Anglophone Fantasy Literature 2006-2016 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anna Bark PerssonSeries:Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations #216Publish date:2023-05-02Pages:146
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sodertorn UniversityISBN-13:9789189504325ISBN-10:9189504321UPC:9789189504325Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCF7FT2GBW

The idea of the Viking is a figure with wide appeal and a large presence in popular culture. The Viking motif also has long-standing associations with normative masculinity, reactionary values, and even white supremacy. This study examines a common but understudied arena of the popular Viking: popular fantasy literature. More specifically, it looks at a recent subgenre called gritty fantasy. First developed in the 2000s, gritty fantasy is deeply invested in and revolves around contemporary concerns regarding masculinity, masculine failure, and narratives of masculinity in crisis.


The study emerges from queer engagements with masculinity and the method of queer reading, asking how to understand the seemingly ubiquitous masculinity of the Viking and its popularity beyond an assumed direct relation to men or men's concerns, and how this relates to ideas about the Nordics and the North.


With readings of Joe Abercrombie's The First Law (2006-2012) and The Shattered Sea (2014-2015), Richard K. Morgan's A Land Fit for Heroes (2008-2016), Mark Lawrence's The Red Queen's War (2014-2016), and Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette's The Iskryne Saga (2007-2015), the study examines the Viking in relation to masculinity, power, sexuality, embodiment, spatiality, and temporality.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Sodertorn UniversityISBN-13:9789189504325ISBN-10:9189504321UPC:9789189504325Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCF7FT2GBW
Publisher: Sodertorn University

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