{"id":1003,"date":"2021-03-16T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:00:41","slug":"book-release-being-dragonborn-critical-essays-on-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/book-release-being-dragonborn-critical-essays-on-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Release &#8211; Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/being-dragonborn\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/being-dragonborn\/\">Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(McFarland &amp; Co., 2021)\u00a0takes the massive video game hit,\u00a0<em>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/em>, as its site of multidisciplinary, scholarly interrogation. This epic fantasy role playing game hails its player as \u201cdragonborn,\u201d a calling that merges political, social, and religious narratives in the game toward the player\u2019s assumption of the dragonborn identity position: savior of Skyrim. Our collection identifies and explores these positions within the cultural ecology of the game. The outstanding authors featured in this collection unpack\u00a0<em>Skyrim<\/em>\u00a0as a topological space that encodes and extends cultural ideologies in the game\u2019s design, gameplay experience, modding tradition, and online game forums. In other words, the dragonborn player is interpellated into a series of ideological roles that mirror the gendered, racially inscribed, neoliberal, and colonialist attitudes and subject positions proffered to players in their out-of-game-existence. For a game like\u00a0<em>Skyrim<\/em>\u00a0that goes to great lengths to construct a fantasy world that is detailed and immersive, the hidden ideologies encoded into the game are important to understanding how a game this popular\u2014and by extension, the video game medium itself\u2014reinscribes the familiar in ostensibly unfamiliar ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim\u00a0(McFarland &amp; Co., 2021)\u00a0takes the massive video game hit,\u00a0The Elder Scrolls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/978-1-4766-7784-2-1.jpeg?fit=500%2C714&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}