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Folter, Spiel/en und die Schwarze Erfahrung

Author(s): Trammell, Aaron

Abstract

This essay considers how the experience of Black folk descended from slaves in North America helps us to rethink a definition of play that has been largely informed by scholars and philosophers working within a White European tradition. This tradition reads play in a mostly positive sense, asserting that certain practices, namely torture, are taboo and cannot be play. The essay argues that this approach to play is shortsighted and linked to a troubling global discourse that renders the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) invisible.

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Trammell, Aaron: Folter, Spiel/en und die Schwarze Erfahrung. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 13 (2021), Nr. 2, S. 16-34. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16786.
@ARTICLE{Trammell2021,
 author = {Trammell, Aaron},
 title = {Folter, Spiel/en und die Schwarze Erfahrung},
 year = 2021,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16786}",
 volume = 13,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {16--34},
}
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