Kill the overseer! The gamification of slave resistance /

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Profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and "gamify" slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing plantation labor, the player may choose to commit small acts of resistance like tool-breaking or working slowly. Others dramatically stage the slave's choice...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lauro, Sarah Juliet (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Series:Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Subjects:
Video games > Political aspects.
Video games > Social aspects.
Video games > Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery in mass media.
Jeux vidéo > Aspect politique.
Jeux vidéo > Aspect social.
Jeux vidéo > Aspect moral.
GAMES > Video & Electronic.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Videogames as Commemoration
  • Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman
  • Paths to Freedom
  • A Close Playing: Flight to Freedom
  • "Make History Yours": An Introduction to Assassin's Creed
  • Avatar Trouble and Aveline
  • Untranslated
  • Failure and Freedom Cry
  • A Digital Fragment
  • Untitled
  • Acknowledgments.

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