Kill the overseer! The gamification of slave resistance / Sarah Juliet Lauro.

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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 to flee enslave...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Main Author: Lauro, Sarah Juliet (Author)
Language:English
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.
Physical Description:91 pages ; 18 cm.
Format: Book

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