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Videogames and Postcolonialism

Empire Plays Back

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Souvik Mukherjee

    1. Presidency University, Kolkata, India

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  • First book to study the relationship between videogames and post-colonialism
  • Analyses a broach range of videogames
  • Creates a larger awareness of global cultural issues in videogame research
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Videogames and Post colonialism: An Introduction

    • Souvik Mukherjee
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Playing Fields of Empire: Empire and Spatiality in Videogames

    • Souvik Mukherjee
    Pages 29-52

  4. Playing the Hybrid Subject: The Slave and the Subaltern in Videogames

    • Souvik Mukherjee
    Pages 53-73

  5. Playing Alternative Histories: Post colonialism, History, and Videogames

    • Souvik Mukherjee
    Pages 75-99

  6. Rethinking (Post) Colonialism in Videogames: Toward a Conclusion

    • Souvik Mukherjee
    Pages 101-112

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 113-120
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About this book

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 complex ways in which some videogames construct conceptions of spatiality, political systems, ethics and society that are often deeply imbued with colonialism.  Moving beyond questions pertaining to European and American gaming cultures, this book addresses issues that relate to a global audience – including, especially, the millions who play videogames in the formerly colonised countries, seeking to make a timely intervention by creating a larger awareness of global cultural issues in videogame research. Addressing a major gap in Game Studies research, this book will connect to discourses of post-colonial theory at large and thereby, provide another entry-point for this new medium of digital communication into larger Humanities discourses.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Presidency University, Kolkata, India

    Souvik Mukherjee

About the author

Souvik Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. His main areas of research are Game Studies, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature and Literary Theory and he is the author of Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books (Palgrave Macmillan,2015).

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