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Serious Fun: Gaming the Book Festival

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Driscoll B & Squires C (2018) Serious Fun: Gaming the Book Festival. Memoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture, 9 (2). https://doi.org/10.7202/1046988ar

Abstract
Book festivals provide a tantalising instance of the overlapping cultural, social and economic dimensions of contemporary literary culture. This article proposes the application of a new conceptual framework, that of game-inspired thinking, to their study. Game-inspired thinking uses games as metaphors that concentrate and exaggerate aspects of cultural phenomena in order to produce new knowledge about their operations. It is also an arts-informed methodology that offers a mid-level perspective between empirical case studies and abstract models. As a method, our Bookfestivalopoly and other games focus attention on the material, social and ideological dimensions of book festivals. In particular, they confirm the presence of neoliberal pressures and neocolonial inequalities in the ¡°world republic of letters.¡± Our research thus makes a contribution to knowledge about the role of festivals within contemporary literary culture, and provides a model for researchers of cultural phenomena who may want to adopt game-inspired, arts-informed thinking as an alternative to traditional disciplinary methods. R¨¦sum¨¦ Les festivals du livre offrent un exemple attirant du chevauchement culturel, social et ¨¦conomique des dimensions de la culture litt¨¦raire. Cet article propose l'application d'un nouveau cadre conceptuel ¨¤ leur ¨¦tude, celui de la r¨¦flection inspir¨¦e par le jeu. La r¨¦flection inspir¨¦e par le jeu utilise le jeu comme une m¨¦taphore qui concentre et exag¨¨re certains aspects de ph¨¦nom¨¨nes culturels culturels afin de produire de nouvelles connaissances envers leurs op¨¦rations. Il s'agit aussi d'une m¨¦thodologie inform¨¦e par les arts qui offre une perspective ¨¤ mi-chemin entre ¨¦tudes de cas empiriques et mod¨¨les abstraits. En tant que m¨¦thode, nos Bookfestivalopoly et autres jeux concentrent l'attention sur les dimensions mat¨¦rielles, sociales et id¨¦ologiques des festivals du livre. En particulier, ils confirment la pr¨¦sence de pressions n¨¦olib¨¦rales et d'iniquit¨¦s n¨¦ocoloniales dans . C'est ainsi que notre recherche fait une contribution ¨¤ la connaissance du r?le des festivals dans la culture litt¨¦raires contemporaine, et offre un mod¨¨le pour les rechercheurs de ph¨¦nom¨¨nes culturels qui aimeraient adopter une approche inspir¨¦e par le jeu et les arts en alternative aux traditionnelles m¨¦thodes disciplinaires.

Keywords
book festivals; literary festivals; writers' festivals; book cultures; games-inspired; arts-informed; publishing studies; Bookfestivalopoly; Book Festival Trumps

Journal
Memoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture: Volume 9, Issue 2

StatusPublished
Publication date31/05/2018
Publication date online31/05/2018
Date accepted by journal21/12/2017
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PublisherGroupe de recherches et d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le livre au Qu¨¦bec
ISSN1920-602X

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Professor Claire Squires

Professor Claire Squires

Professor in Publishing Studies, English Studies

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