Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG - Paperback

by Rachael Hutchinson (Editor), Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon (Editor), Fanny Barnabé (Contribution by)

This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.

Author Biography

Rachael Hutchinson is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Delaware.

Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal.