![]() ![]() Efforts to discuss post-postmodernism, critical realism, new materialism, and new-millennial writing are certainly on a par with artistic and literary efforts to move beyond postmodernist playfulness and relativism. However, with the end of the noughties now in reach of critical hindsight, and with the shock of Septembeginning to subside, significant attention is turning once again toward the new literary vanguard. Postmodernism has cast an extended influence over much literary criticism in the last fifty years. Keywords: David Mitchell, time, narrative, historiography, experimental fiction, post-postmodernism It seeks to offer an alternative perspective on the multiple and intertwined fictional narratives of Mitchell’s oeuvre as these evidence a move past the "post-" of postmodernism. This paper examines David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), with a particular focus on history and narrative time. ![]()
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