Made in Asia/America : why video games were never (really) about us /

"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...

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Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Patterson, Christopher B. (Editor), Fickle, Tara (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Series:	Power play (Duke University Press)
Subjects:	Asian Americans in popular culture. Asian Americans and mass media. Video games > Social aspects. Video gamers. Racism in popular culture. Américains d'origine asiatique dans la culture populaire. Américains d'origine asiatique et médias. Joueurs de jeux vidéo. Racisme dans la culture populaire. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies. GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile. Electronic books.
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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"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781478059264 1478059265 9781478093961 147809396X