Metafiction

and share. Considering I'm planning on going into some sort of communications work (be it journalism, public relations, what-have-you), I was inherently more tuned in to what Ms. Sorapure had to say about her career and pathway from studying metafiction/reflexive fiction unto autobiographies, online diaries, web design, and ultimately, data visualization.…

Mario Vargas Llosa has been writing on politics since the early 1960s. Early in his career, Llosa believed that true socialism might be a possibility in Latin America, but gradually, he came to the conclusion that the Cuban model would not guarantee intellectual freedom. He was attracted towards Jean Paul Sartre’s ideas of commitment. When he leaned away from leftist ideology, Albert Camus became his ethical model. Camus has rejected totalitarianism as a social system where human beings become…

“The golden agouti, like the rhinoceros, was in need of companionship” (Martel, 108). While the book never sounded as if it were written by a child, it was certainly not on the level of William Shakespeare. It was just right. “Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands” (Martel, 231). The language wasn’t written in a bland, distasteful manner. Every single word had a meaningful purpose, just as a member of a…

Disillusionment During the 1970’s We have all witnessed disillusionment at play in our daily lives. It could be finding out that some item is not as great as you thought it might be, or maybe it was a decision that turned sour after you had already gone through with it. Americans in the 1970’s witnessed disillusionment in their own homes. False news reports were forcing patriotic propaganda instead of the truth. Issues such as the Vietnam War, discontent within cities, and inequality between…

Reading the war stories can create questions; was it a “story-truth” or was it a “happening-truth”? Some readers may intend for only nonfictional information, so the unclear explanation of stories can cause them to be uninterested in O’Brien’s metafiction…

Postmodernism and metafiction is detectable all throughout the novel, especially in Daniel Quinn’s general mindset which endorses the transition from the modernism to postmodernism. Moreover, as the reader is fooled to believe that Daniel Quinn is the narrator until late in the novel, makes the reader even more aware of the metafictional elements of the work. Similarly, metafiction and postmodernism can be detected through the wide web of characters…

The first chapter of Barnes’ history presents a revisionist version of the Deluge, told by a woodworm who was a stowaway on board Noah’s ark. The second chapter takes place in the Mediterranean and tells the story of Franklin Hughes, a historian and entertainer, who works on a cruise liner, the Santa Euphemia, which is hijacked by Arab terrorists. The third chapter presents the transcript of a trial, set in a small village in 16th-century France, in which woodworms are charged with destruction…

in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” Holland states that in this text Wallace “…continues his rejection of postmodernism’s unproductive irony in favor of a return to sincerity through metafiction.” (107) Acceptance of the idea that Wallace wishes to attack narcissism with sincerity through narcissism and metafiction is necessary to understanding the idea of the devil, or evil, as nonexistent or an absence rather than the opposite of good. This sincerity can be seen through the entirety of the…

By means of arranging intertextual approaches, Rushdie has problematized postmodernist representational systems of the West, specifically, its colonial and imperial discourse. Besides, his novels are interested in the study of Eastern cultural traditions and history, particularly those of India and Pakistan. As a postcolonialist writer, Rushdie attempts to deconstruct the colonial historical account of the colonizer and subvert it through the creation of another explanations and accounts. The…

Living Trapped in Dead Marriages In the collection of short stories titled Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link paints a vivid picture of the family relationships in the modern society with an original and humorous approach. Through an ingenious use of the Fabulist fiction genre, Kelly tinges her stories with magical and enigmatic figures that leave the reader astonished, disoriented, yet amused. Cats, cat’s skin, witches, ghosts, mediums, rabbits, crocodiles and possessed objects personify…