Videogames and Postcolonialism : Empire Plays Back / by Souvik Mukherjee.
This book focuses on the almost entirely neglected treatment of empire and colonialism in videogames. From its inception in the nineties, Game Studies has kept away from these issues despite the early popularity of videogame franchises such as Civilization and Age of Empire. This book examines the c...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Videogames and Postcolonialism: An Introduction
- 2. The Playing Fields of Empire: Empire and Spatiality in Videogames
- 3. Playing the Hybrid Subject: The Slave and the Subaltern in Videogames
- 4. Playing Alternative Histories: Postcolonialism, History and Videogames
- 5. Rethinking (Post)Colonialism in Videogames: Towards a Conclusion.