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Historiographic metafiction as a category (1979–2000)

Historiographic metafiction as a category (1979–2000)

  1. Lyotard frames skepticism toward grand histories

    Labels: Jean-Fran ois, The Postmodern

  2. Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children popularizes the mode

    Labels: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

  3. Swift’s Waterland models history as contested narrative

    Labels: Graham Swift, Waterland

  4. Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot blurs biography and invention

    Labels: Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  5. McHale systematizes postmodern fiction’s strategies

    Labels: Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction

  6. Hutcheon defines “historiographic metafiction”

    Labels: Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics

  7. Byatt’s Possession turns archival research into plot

    Labels: A S, Possession

  8. Jameson contests postmodernism’s cultural meaning

    Labels: Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism

  9. Ondaatje’s English Patient reworks war history through memory

    Labels: Michael Ondaatje, The English

  10. Sebald’s The Emigrants blends documents and narration

    Labels: W G, The Emigrants

  11. Atwood’s Alias Grace spotlights evidentiary limits

    Labels: Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

  12. The category stabilizes in late-1990s criticism

    Labels: Historiographic metafiction, 1990s criticism