Italo Calvino’s 'If on a winter's night a traveler' is considered a masterpiece of metafiction because its primary protagonist is:
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Correct answer: Fiction that reimagines history while interrogating how historical narratives are constructed
Coined by Linda Hutcheon, this term describes works like 'Midnight's Children' that engage with history but treat it as a subjective narrative construct. It suggests that our knowledge of the past is always mediated through texts.
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