Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance

• Tác giả: Sarah Juliet Lauro
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1452965498
• ISBN-10: 1452965544
• ISBN-13: 978-1452965499
• ISBN-13: 978-1452965543
• ISBN-13: 978-1517911003
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 794.84552 Electronic games Computer games
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource 103 p..)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 198089
• Chủ đề: 1. GAMES / Video & Electronic; 2. Slavery in mass media; 4. Video games--Moral and ethical aspects; 6. Video games--Political aspects; 7. Video games--Social aspects

Tóm tắt

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 enslavement and journey northward, and some depict outright violent revolt against the master and his apparatus. This work questions whether the reduction of a historical enslaved person to a digital commodity in games such as Mission US, Assassin's Creed, and Freedom Cry ought to trouble us as a further commodification of slavery's victims, or whether these interactive experiences offer an empowering commemoration of the history of slave resistance.