Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 19 | 2017
Research Article | “Pip is my story”
“Pip is my story”
Cross-Fertilising Narratives in Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip
- Caterina Colomba - Università del Salento Lecce - email
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.
Submitted: Oct. 29, 2017 | Accepted: Nov. 5, 2017 | Published Dec. 21, 2017 | Language: en
Keywords Great Expectations • Postcolonial literature • Lloyd Jones • Bildungsroman • Mister Pip
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ECF_article_1293 |
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dc.title |
“Pip is my story”. Cross-Fertilising Narratives in Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip |
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dc.contributor.author |
Colomba Caterina |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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dc.type |
Research Article |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2017/1/pip-is-my-story/ |
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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. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Il Tolomeo |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 19 | December 2017 |
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dc.issued |
2017-12-21 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2017-11-05 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2017-10-29 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-5975 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.14277/2499-5975/Tol-19-17-17 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Bildungsroman |
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dc.subject |
Bildungsroman |
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dc.subject |
Great Expectations |
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dc.subject |
Great Expectations |
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dc.subject |
Lloyd Jones |
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dc.subject |
Lloyd Jones |
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dc.subject |
Mister Pip |
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dc.subject |
Mister Pip |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial literature |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial literature |
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