Access to Narrative: Reading China Miéville’s 'Embassytown'

Authors

  • Rui Miguel Mesquita

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i45.33566

Keywords:

China Miéville, Narrative, Imagination.

Abstract

Since his novel The City & the City, China Miéville has been reshaping the genre which he brought to the literary mainstream, the New Weird. In order to exemplify this reshaping, we propose an analysis of another of his novels, Embassytown, in which is shown a disturbing association between language, imagination and narrative that refines the concept of rapprochement between literature and politics which Miéville has pursued in his oeuvre. 

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n45a1095.

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Author Biography

Rui Miguel Mesquita

Colaborador do Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa. Doutorado no Ramo de Conhecimento em Literatura, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.

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Published

2018-04-30

How to Cite

Mesquita, R. M. (2018). Access to Narrative: Reading China Miéville’s ’Embassytown’. Gragoatá, 23(45), 92-105. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i45.33566

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 45 (2018): Literature and Democracy

Section

Literature Articles

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