Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Great Expectations under the same title?
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Correct answer: B. Kathy Acker
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Kathy Acker's Great Expectations (1982) plagiarises and remixes Dickens's opening. Carey's Jack Maggs (1997) retells it from Magwitch's side.
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