Editing Historiographic metafiction (section)

== Concept ==
The term is used for works of fiction which combine the literary devices of [[metafiction]] with [[historical fiction]]. Works regarded as historiographic metafiction are also distinguished by frequent allusions to other artistic, historical and literary texts (i.e., [[intertextuality]]) in order to show the extent to which works of both literature and [[historiography]] are dependent on the history of discourse.<ref name="bolland">{{cite book|last1=Bolland|first1=John|title=Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: A Reader's Guide|date=2002|publisher=Continuum|location=London, UK|isbn=978-0-8264-5243-6|page=54}}</ref>

Although Hutcheon said that historiographic metafiction is not another version of the [[Historical fiction|historical novel]], there are scholars (e.g., [[Monika Fludernik]]) who describe it as such, citing that it is simply an updated late-twentieth-century version of the genre for its embrace of the conceptualizations of the novel and of the historical in the twentieth century.<ref name=":0" />

The term is closely associated with works of [[postmodern literature]], usually novels. According to Hutcheon's "A Poetics of Postmodernism", works of historiographic metafiction are "those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages".<ref name="Hutcheon5">Hutcheon 5</ref> This is demonstrated in the genres that historiographic metafiction parodies, which it uses and abuses so that each parody constitutes a critique in the way it problematizes them.<ref>{{Cite book|title=World War II in Andreï Makine's Historiographic Metafiction: 'No One Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgotten'|last=Duffy|first=Helena|date=2018|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-36231-4|location=Leiden|pages=12}}</ref> This process is also identified as "subversion" for the purpose of exposing suppressed histories to allow the redefinition of reality and truth.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Metafiction|last=Currie|first=Mark|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-582-21292-3|location=New York|pages=92}}</ref>