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Of Floating Isles
- On Growing Pains and Video Games
Engelsk
Bogcover for Of Floating Isles af Kawika Guillermo, 9781834050065
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
252
ISBN-13:
9781834050065
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1834050065
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2025
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Of Floating Isles

- On Growing Pains and Video Games
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in our lives. Interweaving memoir with cultural critique, Kawika Guillermo explores the subtle yet transformative influences of video games in shaping them as a queer and mixed-race grandson of two preachers; as a traveller, immigrant, and games scholar; and as a father, caretaker, and mourner. Through a mixture of fanciful musing, rigorous inquiry, and unflinching self-reflection, Of Floating Isles reframes the gamer''s retreat from others not as social isolation, but as a quest for a different community, one where they feel seen, heard, and understood. This deep-seated longing to belong, Guillermo suggests, forms the imaginative worlds of video games and the floating isles they conjure. By exploring his own lifelong attachment to video games, Guillermo shows how they can spark rage, confusion, and the desire to escape, but these emotions are not necessarily bad - they are the growing pains that many young people must work through. So too can games provide reflective realms to dwell, to imagine, and to build spaces for queer, trans, racialized, and neurodiverse groups. Envisioning games as forms of poetic interaction, Of Floating Isles boldly conveys their truth-telling powers: their ability to offer guidance in times of loss and hardship, and their power to reveal the oppressive mechanisms of our ''real'' world.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
252
ISBN-13:
9781834050065
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1834050065
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2025
Forfatter(e):
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