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    Strange transactions: utopia, transmigration and time in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas

    Edwards, Caroline (2010) Strange transactions: utopia, transmigration and time in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas. In: Dillon, S. (ed.) David Mitchell: Critical Essays. Canterbury, UK: Gylphi, pp. 179-203. ISBN 9781780240039.

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    Abstract

    Book synopsis: The outcome of the first international conference on David Mitchell's writing, this collection of critical essays, focuses on his first three novels - Ghostwritten (1999), number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004) - to provide a sustained analysis of Mitchell's complex narrative techniques and the literary, political and cultural implications of his early work. The essays cover topics ranging from narrative structure, genre and the Bildungsroman to representations of Japan, postmodernism, the construction of identity, utopia, science fiction and postcolonialism.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2014 16:58
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:34
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9283

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