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David Mitchell: Critical Essays

On 3–4 September 2009, against a backdrop of the most torrential storm to hit North East Fife in recent years, the first David Mitchell Conference took place with the stated aim of bringing together those scholars working on David Mitchell's writing in intellectual dialogue and exchange. The aim of the conference was to consolidate and advance academic work currently underway on Mitchell's writing; the outcome is this collection of critical essays. Focusing on Mitchell's first three novels – Ghostwritten (1999), number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004) – the collection addresses such topics as narrative structure, genre, the Bildungsroman, representations of Japan, postmodernism, utopia, science fiction and postcolonialism. The collection represents the first sustained attempt to analyse Mitchell's complex narrative techniques and the literary, political and cultural implications of his early work. Complementing this, Sarah Dillon's introduction draws out the connections between the topics raised in the essays and Mitchell's most recent works, Black Swan Green (2006) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010).

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Contents

David Mitchell (Foreword); Sarah Dillon (Introduction); Peter Childs and James Green (The Novel in Nine Parts); Kathryn Simpson ('Or something like that': Coming of Age in number9dream); Baryon Tensor Posadas (Remediations of 'Japan' in number9dream); Courtney Hopf (The Stories we Tell: Discursive Identity through Narrative Form in Cloud Atlas); Hélène Machinal (Cloud Atlas: From Post-modernity to the Post-human); Will McMorran (Cloud Atlas and If On a Winter's Night a Traveller: Fragmentation and Integrity in the Postmodern Novel); Caroline Edwards ('Strange Transactions': Utopia, Transmigration and Time in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas); Nicholas Dunlop (Speculative Fiction as Postcolonial Critique in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas); William Stephenson ('Moonlight bright as a UFO abduction': Science Fiction, Present-Future Alienation and Cognitive Mapping).

About the Editor

Sarah Dillon is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007) and Infidelity, a forthcoming study of infidelity in contemporary philosophy, literature and film. Sarah has published articles and chapters on a range of writers including Jacques Derrida, Elizabeth Bowen, H.D., Maggie Gee, David Mitchell and Michel Faber.

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Reviews

'This book of essays is actually fun – and that's something I'm surprised to write about literary theory.' – Sam Jordison (Guardian Books Blog, 1 July 2011)

'It is clear that David Mitchell is a very important contemporary writer, and Gylphi can be proud that they have produced the first critical work about him.' – Rob Spence (Topsyturvydom, 15 June 2011)

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