Geralt of Poland : "The Witcher 3" between epistemic disobedience and imperial nostalgia

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Geralt of Poland : "The Witcher 3" between epistemic disobedience and imperial nostalgia

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dc.contributor.author	Majkowski, Tomasz [SAP14001259]	pl
dc.date.accessioned	2018-02-07T12:10:03Z
dc.date.available	2018-02-07T12:10:03Z
dc.date.issued	2018	pl
dc.identifier.issn	2056-6700	pl
dc.identifier.uri	https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/49824
dc.language	eng	pl
dc.rights	Udzielam licencji. Uznanie autorstwa 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode	*
dc.title	Geralt of Poland : "The Witcher 3" between epistemic disobedience and imperial nostalgia	pl
dc.type	JournalArticle	pl
dc.description.physical	1-35	pl
dc.description.additional	Autor na pub. podpisany: Tomasz Z. Majkowski	pl
dc.identifier.weblink	https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/10.16995/olh.216/	pl
dc.abstract.en	This article is a reading of The Witcher 3 in relation to postcolonial approaches to Polish culture. It departs from an analysis of an online debate on racial representation in the game as a possible act of epistemic disobedience, and moves on to a consideration of three narrative aspects of the game itself: its representation of political struggle, the ideological stance of the protagonist, and ethnic inspirations in worldbuilding. By referring those three issues to postcolonial analyses of Polish culture, as well as Walter D. Mignolo’s concept of decolonization through epistemic disobedience, this article aims to demonstrate paradoxical qualities of the game, which tries to simultaneously distance itself from the established, West-oriented ways of knowledge production and gain recognition as an artifact of modern Western pop culture. Moreover, it employs the tradition of Polish Romanticism to establish itself as a bridge between Slavdom and Western culture, and strengthen the colonial idea of Poland being the proper ruler over Slavs.	pl
dc.subject.en	postcolonial studies	pl
dc.subject.en	epistemic disobedience	pl
dc.subject.en	slavicness	pl
dc.subject.en	Polish culture	pl
dc.subject.en	The Witcher 3	pl
dc.subject.en	game studies	pl
dc.description.volume	4	pl
dc.description.number	1	pl
dc.description.points	2	pl
dc.description.publication	2,0	pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.16995/olh.216	pl
dc.title.journal	Open Library in Humanities	pl
dc.title.volume	Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies	pl
dc.language.container	eng	pl
dc.date.accession	2018-02-06	pl
dc.affiliation	Wydział Polonistyki : Katedra Antropologii Literatury i Badań Kulturowych	pl
dc.subtype	Article	pl
dc.rights.original	CC-BY; otwarte czasopismo; ostateczna wersja wydawcy; w momencie opublikowania; 0	pl
dc.scopuswos.indexing	tak	pl