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Critical hits: writers on gaming and the alternate worlds we inhabit

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This collection of stylish, passionate, and searching essays opens with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, who edited the anthology alongside J. Robert Lennon. In these pages, writer-gamers find solace from illness and grief, test ideas about language, bodies, power, race, and technology, and see their experiences and identities reflected in―or complicated by―the interactive virtual worlds they inhabit. Elissa Washuta immerses herself in The Last of Us during the first summer of the pandemic. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah describes his last goodbye to his father with the help of Disco Elysium. Jamil Jan Kochai remembers being an Afghan American teenager killing Afghan insurgents in Call of Duty . Also included are a comic by MariNaomi about her time as a video game producer; a deep dive into “portal fantasy” movies about video games by Charlie Jane Anders; and new work by Alexander Chee, Hanif Abdurraqib, Larissa Pham, and many more.

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Call Number

823 MAC C

Publisher

London : Graywolf Press., 2023

Collation

234 p. ; 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781800814523

Classification

800

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Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

Anthology
Literary Fiction
Essays

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Statement of Responsibility

Carmen Maria Machado

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