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Tytuł: | Body Movin’: Ecocritical and Postcolonial Readings of the Travelling Body in the Tomb Raider Series |
Tytuł równoległy: | Ciało w ruchu – ekokrytyczna i postkolonialna lektura podróżującego ciała w rozrywce interaktywnej na przykładzie serii Tomb Raider |
Autor: | Gnat, Tomasz |
Słowa kluczowe: | Game studies; ecocriticism; postcolonialism; travelling body; ekokrytyka; postkolonializm; podróżujące ciało |
Data wydania: | 2021 |
Źródło: | "Postscriptum Polonistyczne" (2021), nr 1, s. 231-246 |
Abstrakt: | When Lara Croft travels, she travels light – sans suitcase, but in most cases with enough firepower to take opposing forces
ranging from dinosaurs to bloodthirsty locals. However, her big guns seems often unnecessary titillation, for she can
manage very well without them thanks to her exquisite acrobatic and hand-to-hand combat skills. She will vault over any
obstacle, swim across rapid flowing rivers and abseil the steepest ravines. Lara Croft’s travels are often as physical as the
virtual world would allow. That physicality returns our attention to the oft forgotten aspect of travelling namely the body
of the traveller, not only defined by its position in space, but also by the ordinary and extraordinary circumstances of its
biological interaction with the surrounding environment.
In this paper I would like to explore the interplay between the body of the traveller and contexts it is located in. These
contexts range from the narrative and gameplay aspects of the Tomb Raider series, but also go beyond the border of the
game and are realised in the transformative and reflective cultural milieu of the game. In particular I want to focus on the
representations of Lara Croft as an archetypal “action girl” and “adventurer archaeologist” and how these representations
are realised in reference to the changing (maturing?) video game environments. In the framework of postcolonial and ecocritical
theories I want to explore the dyads of body/the purported exotic, body/natural environment, as well as physical/
mental aspects of travelling. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/20595 |
DOI: | 10.31261/PS_P.2021.27.13 |
ISSN: | 2353-9844 |
Pojawia się w kolekcji: | Artykuły (W.Hum.)
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