[Commlist] Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Kill the Overseer!***

The Gamification of Slave Resistance

*Sarah Juliet Lauro***

*https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517911003/kill-the-overseer/* 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517911003/kill-the-overseer/>*__*

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*CSLS2020*

Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the 
trouble with making history playable.

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/Kill the Overseer!/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. In this work, Sarah Juliet Lauro 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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*Sarah Juliet Lauro*is assistant professor in the English department at 
the University of Tampa. She is coeditor of /Better Off Dead: The 
Evolution of the Zombie as Posthuman/; author of /The Transatlantic 
Zombie: Slavery, /Rebellion, and Living Death; and editor of /Zombie 
Theory: A Reader/(Minnesota, 2017).*__*


*University of Minnesota Press**| Forerunners: Ideas First | August 
2020 | 100pp | 9781517911003 | PB | £8.00**

*Price subject to change.

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