In the Ashes of Earth and the Absence of Empire: The Colonial Starfield

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Preface VII
4. Acknowledgements
5. Contents V
6. Introduction 1
7. Colonial Realism in Video Games 23
8. Shenmue II, Postcolonialism, and the Rise of Neoliberalism 55
9. Representation Troubles of Women in Video Games: The Colonial/Modern Gender System 77
10. Aloy, the Colonial Entrepreneur: Colonial Realism in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West 103
11. Posthumanist Concerns in the Colonial Construction of Human Occupation of Outer Space in EVE Online 123
12. Colonizing Space: Terra Nullius and No Man’s Sky 141
13. In the Ashes of Earth and the Absence of Empire: The Colonial Starfield 157
14. Anti-Balkanism in The Witcher 179
15. Self-Exoticizing Iterations of (Post)communism in Black: The Fall 205
16. Romania in Resident Evil Village: Colonial Power Relations in the Japanese-American-Romanian Imagological Triangle 229
17. Hybrid Primordiality: Colonial Emplotment and Objectscapes in Assassin’s Creed 247
18. List of Contributors
19. Index