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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1293
dc.title	“Pip is my story”. Cross-Fertilising Narratives in Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip
dc.contributor.author	Colomba Caterina
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2017/1/pip-is-my-story/
dc.description.abstract	In Mister Pip (2006), New Zealander writer Lloyd Jones transfers Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations to Papua New Guinea. Through a skilful play of metanarrative cross-references, Jones gives lifeblood back to the Victorian text while creating a new artistic work in which the 19th century enters into a dialogue with contemporary times offering its reader a modern ‘female’ Bildungsroman. This paper explores how Great Expectations turns out to be instrumental for the growth of Matilda, Jones’s main character, and for the development of the plot in a way that invites us to reflect on the imaginative power of literature and the unpredictable nature of its consequences in the world outside literary fiction.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 19 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2017-11-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-10-29
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2499-5975/Tol-19-17-17
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Bildungsroman
dc.subject	Bildungsroman
dc.subject	Great Expectations
dc.subject	Great Expectations
dc.subject	Lloyd Jones
dc.subject	Lloyd Jones
dc.subject	Mister Pip
dc.subject	Mister Pip
dc.subject	Postcolonial literature
dc.subject	Postcolonial literature

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“Pip is my story”

Cross-Fertilising Narratives in Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip

Caterina Colomba Università del Salento Lecce

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In Mister Pip (2006), New Zealander writer Lloyd Jones transfers Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations to Papua New Guinea. Through a skilful play of metanarrative cross-references, Jones gives lifeblood back to the Victorian text while creating a new artistic work in which the 19th century enters into a dialogue with contemporary times offering its reader a modern ‘female’ Bildungsroman. This paper explores how Great Expectations turns out to be instrumental for the growth of Matilda, Jones’s main character, and for the development of the plot in a way that invites us to reflect on the imaginative power of literature and the unpredictable nature of its consequences in the world outside literary fiction.

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Dec. 21, 2017

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Nov. 5, 2017

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Oct. 29, 2017

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Keywords: Postcolonial literature • Bildungsroman • Mister Pip • Great Expectations • Lloyd Jones

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