Historiographic Metafiction: An Assessment
| Vol-2 | Issue-4 | April-2015 | Published Online: 10 April 2015 PDF ( 236 KB ) | ||
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| Sapna Dudeja 1 | ||
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1PhD Scholar (English), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi |
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| Abstract | ||
This paper seeks to examine the concept of historiographic metafiction as a postmodernist form that combines history with self-reflexive fiction. This genre foregrounds the Lyotardian definition of postmodernism as “incredulity towards metanarratives” and exposes the constructed nature of truth. |
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| Keywords | ||
| historiographic metafiction, metanarratives, constructedness, self-reflexivity, postmodernism | ||
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