제목 : Playing Against Real Time: Queer(ing) Temporalities in Bury me, my Love
저자 : Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam
초록 :
This article examines the 2017 interactive fiction Bury me, my Love (BMML) as a case study to determine to what extent games on forced migration can be set in dialog with larger debates on forced migration. In particular, I explore how BMML offers a unique perspective on refugee temporalities through its undermining of conventions in game time to queer player expectations. Looking at its WhatsApp game mechanics through the lens of discourses on migrant timescapes, this essay evaluates how BMML’s engagement with the player’s real time endeavors to communicate the temporal uncertainty and disruption of refugee time. I thereby argue that by queering player expectations in digital games on forced migration, this serious game reveals how migrants themselves are queer subjects, setting the representation of refugee experience in dialog with queer theory through a “subjectless critique” of temporality during the migrant journey.
URL : https://gamestudies.org/2201/articles/nijdam
제목 : Playing Against Real Time: Queer(ing) Temporalities in Bury me, my Love
저자 : Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam
초록 :
This article examines the 2017 interactive fiction Bury me, my Love (BMML) as a case study to determine to what extent games on forced migration can be set in dialog with larger debates on forced migration. In particular, I explore how BMML offers a unique perspective on refugee temporalities through its undermining of conventions in game time to queer player expectations. Looking at its WhatsApp game mechanics through the lens of discourses on migrant timescapes, this essay evaluates how BMML’s engagement with the player’s real time endeavors to communicate the temporal uncertainty and disruption of refugee time. I thereby argue that by queering player expectations in digital games on forced migration, this serious game reveals how migrants themselves are queer subjects, setting the representation of refugee experience in dialog with queer theory through a “subjectless critique” of temporality during the migrant journey.
URL : https://gamestudies.org/2201/articles/nijdam