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Noting the penchant for China Miéville’s writings to defy genre categorization, Anita Tarr labels his three YA novels as posthumanist assemblages, being posthumanist-Marxist-fantasy-Gothic horror-Young Adult novels. King Rat, Un Lun Dun, and Railsea are all re-envisionings of classic stories (“Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Through the Looking-Glass, and Moby Dick), sometimes to the detriment of Miéville’s superlative imaginative writing. Miéville is especially concerned with his protagonists resisting their conventional heroic destiny as they explore their posthumanist possibilities. Stock full of hybrid characters, each novel acknowledges fluid boundaries (fantasy and reality, animal and human) and multiple subjectivities; however, each is also burdened with heavy ties to anti-consumerist lessons. |
