Kill the Overseer! : The Gamification of Slave Resistance

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
Main Author: Lauro, Sarah Juliet
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Video games > Social aspects.
Video games > Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery in mass media.
GAMES / Video & Electronic
Video games > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • 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
  • About the Author

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