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Made in Asia/America : why video games were never (really) about us
Title
Made in Asia/America : why video games were never (really) about us / edited by Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle.
ISBN
9781478059264
1478059265
9781478093961
147809396X
9781478030263
1478030267
9781478026037
1478026030
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
"Made in Asia/America explores the key role video games play within the race-makings of Asia/America. Each of its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers, examine the historical entanglements of games, Asia, and America, and reveal the ways games offer new modes of imagining imperial violence, racial difference, and coalition. Shifting away from Eurocentric, white, masculinist takes on gaming, the contributors focus on minority and queer experiences, practices, and innovative scholarly methods, to better account for the imperial circulation of games. Encouraging ambiguous and contextual ways of understanding games, the editors offer an "interactive" editorial method, a genre-expanding approach that encourages hybrid works of auto-theory, queer of color theory, and conversation among game makers and scholars to generate divergent meanings of games, play, and "Asian America."; Contributors. Matthew Seiji Burns, Edmond Y. Chang, Naomi Clark, Miyoko Conley, Toby Đõ̂, Anthony Dominguez, Tara Fickle, Sarah Christina Ganzon, Yuxin Gao, Domini Gee, Melos Han-Tani, Huan He, Matthew Jungsuk Howard, Rachael Hutchinson, Paraluman (Luna) Javier, Sisi Jiang, Marina Ayano Kittaka, Minh Le, Haneul Lee, Rachel Li, Christian Kealoha Miller, Patrick Miller, Keita C. Moore, Souvik Mukherjee, Christopher B. Patterson, Pamela (Pam) Punzalan, Takeo Rivera, Yasheng She, D. Squinkifer, Lien B. Tran, Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy, Emperatriz Ung, Gerald Voorhees, Yizhou (Joe) Xu, Robert Yang, Mike Ren Yi"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2024. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Made in Asia/America. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2024
Series
Power play
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Asia / Games \ America / Tara Fickle and Christopher B. Patterson
Designer roundtable #1: Mixed connections / Emperatriz Ung, Patrick Miller, Minh Le, and Matthew Seiji Burns
Gaming while Asian / Edmond Y. Chang
The Asiatic and the anti-Asian pandemic : on Paradise Killer / Christopher B. Patterson
Asian, adjacent : utopian longing and model minority mediation in Disco Elysium / Takeo Rivera
Designer roundtable #2: Choose your mothership / Sisi Jiang, Domini Gee, Toby Đõ̂, and Naomi Clark
Playable deniability : biracial representation and the politics of play in Metal Gear Solid / Keita Moore
Designing the global body : Japan's postwar modernity in Death Stranding / Yasheng She
The trophy called "Asian Hands" : on the mythical proficiency of Asian gamers / Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy
Designer roundtable #3: Localizing empire / Joe Yizhou Xu, Lien B. Tran, Christian Kealoha Miller, and Paraluman (Luna) Javier
Colonial moments in Japanese video games : a multidirectional perspective / Rachael Hutchinson
The video game version of the Indian subcontinent : the exotic and the colonized / Souvik Mukherjee
High-tech Orientalism in play : performing South Koreanness in esports / Gerald Voorhees and Matthew Jungsuk Howard
Designer roundtable #4: The crumbs of our representation / Robert Yang, Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky), Rachel Li, and Marina Ayano Kittaka
Chinese/cheating : procedural racism in Battle Royale Shooters / Huan He
Romancing the night away : queering animate hierarchies in Hatoful Boyfriend and Tusks / Miyoko Conley
The Fujoshi trophy and ridiculously hot men : Otome games and postfeminist sensibilities / Sarah Christina Ganzon
Designer roundtable #5: How do we talk about things that are happening without talking about things that are happening? / Mike Ren, Pamela Punzalan, Melos Han-Tani, and Yuxin Gao
Hip-hop and fighting-games : locating the Blerd between New York and Japan / Anthony Dominguez
"This is what we do" : Hong Kong protests in Animal Crossing: New Horizons / Haneul Lee
Coda: Role / play \ race / Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle.
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