Kill the Overseer! : The Gamification of Slave Resistance

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Forerunners: Ideas First Ser | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (100 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452965543
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

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