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Trailing Postmodernism: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith’s NW, and the Metamodern

Pages 723-743 | Received 15 Jan 2018, Accepted 08 Mar 2018, Published online: 16 Oct 2018

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