Play/Fighting: A transfeminine activist memoir from the Digital Walden

dc.contributor.advisorSchryer, Stephen
dc.contributor.advisorRobinson, Matte
dc.contributor.authorKitts, Jamie
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-12T17:26:58Z
dc.date.available2024-06-12T17:26:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-04
dc.description.abstractPlay/Fighting: A Transfeminine Activist Memoir from the Digital Walden is a hybrid work of creative non-fiction, poetry, and close reading. Centered around an analysis of Walden, a game, a videogame adaptation of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Play/Fighting uses the story from the game to tell stories from my life as it intersects with videogame culture, activism, and the struggle for transgender rights. Taking inspiration from Ken Baumann’s EarthBound, Play/Fighting structures its telling through the gameplay and level progression from Walden, a game, with chapters named for the game’s levels and chapter content informed by the game’s plot. By incorporating aesthetics from nature writing and New Games Journalism, my thesis tests the “Play Deliberately” tagline from Walden, a game through the cultivation of solitude and the sublime.
dc.description.copyright© Jamie Kitts, 2024
dc.format.extentvi, 145
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/37999
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.relationSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Canada Graduate Scholarship
dc.relationUniversity of New Brunswick, School of Graduate Studies and Department of English - Accelerated Master’s Funding, English Graduate Assistantship, RM Vaughan Memorial Scholarship
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_f1cf
dc.subject.disciplineEnglish
dc.titlePlay/Fighting: A transfeminine activist memoir from the Digital Walden
dc.typemaster thesis
oaire.license.conditionother
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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