The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon: Fantasy must get over its old white men obsession

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The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon: Fantasy must get over its old white men obsession
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The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon: Fantasy must get over its old white men obsession. 📺 Let's face it, the genre is mostly a sword-and-sausage-fest, as far as the eye can see, writes Ed Power.

His Dark MaterialsThere are exceptions, of course. Netflix has green-lit a second season of its adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’sAnother issue is that female fantasy authors are often re-categorised as “YA” or as writers of modern fairy tales – something that Fonda Lee has highlighted on Twitter.

“Genre writing is a subculture, and a welcoming one for diverse voices, although female folk horror authors like Tanith Lee and Angela Carter are often reclassified as writing revisionist fairy tales,” says Tracy Fahey, a dark folklore and gothic writer whose short story collection,“However there is still a time-lag in terms of screen adaptations. Yes, the Hero’s Journey is a popular narrative arc, but it’s time to see it rewritten from new, diverse perspectives.

In the case of George RR Martin’s Westeros, it might be argued that time has already caught up. Martin’s singular cocktail of sex and skulduggery was regarded as revolutionary in the 1990s . And as we all know only too well,showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss, took the suggestively-shaped baton and ran with it adapting

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