Re-Imaging the Colonial Encounter in Stargate: SG-1 : Discourses of Linear Progress and Separate Development
2018; Routledge; Volume: 20; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/1369801x.2018.1492434
ISSN1469-929X
AutoresVincent van Bever Donker, Stephanie Yorke,
Tópico(s)Digital Games and Media
ResumoThis essay advances the postcolonial analysis of the television series Stargate: SG-1 (1997–2007) by investigating its engagement with colonial tropes. We show that the series fails in its attempts to be anticolonial, and ultimately translates a colonial map of the world onto the galaxy. Moving beyond these problematics of representation, where previous criticism has tended to dwell, we focus on the discursive underpinnings of the show, proceeding to elicit the ways in which the attempted anticolonial positioning of the series in fact results in the redeployment of the colonial discourses of linear development and separate development. These two discourses are in tension with each other and function, it is argued, as a driving contradiction that propels the show, marking the fundamental reliance of Stargate: SG-1 on colonial discourse.
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