Queen Of Meereen | Daenerys Targaryen

Queen of Meereen | Daenerys Targaryen

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I take it you don't think of dany as an colonizer or imperialist either

I do not. She's not engaging in a project of colonisation in metropolis-colony terms, nor one of empire-building in the terms of late 19th, early 20th century construction of capital - which is what those words mean.

Is Dany's story laced with themes of white saviourism? Yeah, absolutely. Even if you don't think of her as *white*, the themes and imagery are still very much taken from orientalist fiction.

Is Dany a good ruler? Not really, and I think that the crux of her story in A Dance With Dragons is meant to mirror Jon's, of both of them failing their projects of power and retreating towards magic again after being touched by a whole book of counting beets and negotiating with the elites. Jon dies, and Dany is left stranded and captured by the khalasar. They are failure points, contrasting where they leave A Storm of Swords in triumph.

But she's not really starting up the British Empire or the Portuguese Ultramarine Empire in Meereen.

Oh, also. She's 14.

DAENERYS TARGARYEN

“Viserys was Mad Aerys’s son, just so. Daenerys… Daenerys is quite different. The frightened child who sheltered in my manse died on the Dothraki sea, and was reborn in blood and fire. This dragon queen who wears her name is a true Targaryen.”

— Tyrion II, ADWD.

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