What is 'Historiographic Metafiction'?
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Correct answer: Fiction that fictionalizes history while reflecting on the process of writing history
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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