“Raji’s Burden”

“Raji’s Burden”

“Raji’s Burden”
Soraya Murray Article This article uses a visual culture studies approach to examine how video games invoking non-Western cultural specificities face heightened pressures to completely and “authentically” represent their cultures. Focusing on the independent Indian video game Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads 2020) as a key example, I employ art historian Kobena Mercer’s concept of the “burden of representation” to show how race, ethnicity, and gender intersect…