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Kill the Overseer! : The Gamification of Slave Resistance

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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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Lauro, Sarah Juliet
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Cyfres:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Pynciau:
Video games > Social aspects.
Video games > Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery in mass media.
GAMES / Video & Electronic
Video games > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Mynediad Ar-lein:Full text available:
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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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