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 to flee enslave...

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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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