Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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What's the Main Thing in the Book?
There's three parts, and the first part is called jora. The representation a looks more at gender disability, social critique in the jep g different games. And then, i think liminality, we were thinking more in terms of network and on line play, or future directions of the genre. We talk about artitorial characters and this idea that the story of a gerpig is quite linear. It geropigas poconstructed discourse s very performative in this way. So what kind of qualities does it have that makes it worthy of its own book? People don't think of it as a jerpy gs series but they do. But you can probably
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