Creating Alternative Worlds: How Play Produces Queer Times and Spaces in Dungeons & Dragons

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Creating Alternative Worlds: How Play Produces Queer Times and Spaces in Dungeons & Dragons

This dissertation removes queerness from strict identity practices to look at how spaces and times can be queered during moments and movements when players interacted with the fantasy role playing game Dungeons & Dragons. I conducted 7 semi-structured interviews with avid players of Dungeons &am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wistow, Hollie
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2023
Subjects:	role-playing role-playing games RPGs Dungeons & Dragons D&D queerness queer theory
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72050/

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