Cannibalism, Colonialism and Apocalypse in Mitchell’s Global Future

Ng, Lynda

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“…16 Lynda Ng describes Cloud Atlas as "a novel with clear global ambition," drawing on the ageold conflict between the human and the natural in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 17 Heather J. Hicks believes that Mitchell's novel concerns itself with the myth of the eternal return as analysed by Mircea Eliade. 18 Even though neither the author nor his critics state this explicitly, the novel is actually an atlas of the globalization of fiction.…”

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The Atlas of Globalizing Fiction

Cesereanu¹

2020

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David Mitchell has written a famous novel about how to make a (geographically fragmented) novel out of fragments: the six life stories included in Cloud Atlas are implicit fictional networks, simultaneously concealed and laid bare. The novel offers ample room for six nested histories and their divergent styles; the result is a strange and rather ostentatious book, shaped like a ziggurat, and providing an almost didactic initiation into matters of style. In fact, David Mitchell offers an atlas of the globalization of fiction. The spaces and times of Cloud Atlas engender not only polytopy and polychrony, but also a theory of fiction. The atlas of worlds, zones, territories, topographies becomes a structure that constantly generates other worlds to be visited or narrated. Their very narrativity allows for the globalization of fiction.

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2020

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“…Lynda Ng claims that in relation to the middle chapter the first and last ones "constitute the past and the future, confounding linear time by positing an interrelationship of past and future configurations of human society". 8 Geographically, the novel circumnavigates the globe: the ship on which Adam Ewing in "The Pacific Journal" sails is headed towards Hawaii, where the post-apocalyptic part is set as well. This temporal and spatial loop implies that "the behavior of mankind does not change across time".…”

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The Eternal Recurrence of (Hi)Story: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Kucała¹

2018

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This article analyses the structural and thematic repetitions in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Similar motifs and character types are re-used in the novel's circular rather than linear structure. It is argued that, while staging a dialectic of sameness and diff erence, Cloud Atlas eschews the Platonic hierarchy of a model and its copy and blurs the distinction between the real and the fi ctional. All the six interlocked narratives that build the novel may be regarded as artefacts, remediated and encased in other artefacts. The same material is reconfi gured in an endless cycle, which, as the article argues, harks back to the second, Nietzschean model of repetition distinguished by J. Hillis Miller in Fiction and Repetition.

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“Prophet Malthus Surveyed a Dustbowl”: David Mitchell, Neo-Malthusianism, and the World-Ecology in Crisis

Loughry

2020

The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis

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Cannibalism, Colonialism and Apocalypse in Mitchell’s Global Future

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

The Atlas of Globalizing Fiction

The Atlas of Globalizing Fiction

The Eternal Recurrence of (Hi)Story: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

“Prophet Malthus Surveyed a Dustbowl”: David Mitchell, Neo-Malthusianism, and the World-Ecology in Crisis

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