The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream

• Main Author: Lai, Zaneta Zhi Yan
• Other Authors: Neil Murphy
• Format: Student Research Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159664
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The following essay seeks to examine literary texts of the 21st century that precedes an era of postmodernism in what can arguably be labelled post- postmodernism. In studying the experimental works of David Mitchell, post-postmodernism is suggested to take on a notion of totality and globality in the great wake of postmodern traits such as fragmentation and a destabilized reality. Postmodernism has been defined as an “incredulity towards metanarratives” (Lyotard 25). In challenging such metanarratives, post- postmodernism seeks to further question if a new Metanarrative with a capital M can ever be defined, within the encapsulation of intertextuality.