Session Details

Monday, 29 December

551. “A Multitude of Drops”: The Geopolitics and Ethics of David Mitchell’s Fiction

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square 18, Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Jason Howard Mezey, Saint Joseph’s Univ.

1. “David Mitchell’s Pacific Rim: Imaginary Histories, Real Politics,” John David Zuern, Univ. of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

2. “Metropole in the Age of Clouds and Ghosts: Postglobal Britain in David Mitchell,” Ryan S. Trimm, Univ. of Rhode Island

3. “Reality Reinscribed, Gobbling Up Prohibited: A Posthumanist Reading of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas,” Jennifer Rickel, Rice Univ.

4. “Nation, History, Narrative: David Mitchell’s Epic of Globalization,” Jason Howard Mezey

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