Editing Historiographic metafiction (section)

== Examples ==
Works often described as examples of historiographic metafiction include: ''[[Doctor Copernicus]]'' by [[John Banville]] (1976), ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' by [[John Fowles]] (1969), ''[[Ragtime (novel)|Ragtime]]'' by [[E. L. Doctorow]] (1975), ''[[Legs (novel)|Legs]]'' by [[William Kennedy (author)|William Kennedy]] (1975), ''[[Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' by [[Octavia E. Butler]] (1979), ''[[Midnight's Children]]'' by [[Salman Rushdie]] (1981), ''[[The Great Indian Novel]]'' by [[Shashi Tharoor]]  (1989), ''[[Possession (Byatt novel)|Possession]]'' by [[A. S. Byatt]] (1990), ''[[The English Patient]]'' by [[Michael Ondaatje]] (1992), ''[[The Master of Petersburg]]'' by [[J. M. Coetzee]]  (1994), and ''[[Mason & Dixon]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]] (1997). 

By seeking to represent both ''actual historical events'' from [[World War II]] while, at the same time, ''problematizing'' the very notion of doing exactly that, [[Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut's]] ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' (1969) features a metafictional, "[[Janus|Janus-headed]]" perspective.<ref name="jensen">Jensen, Mikkel (2016) "[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00144940.2015.1133546 Janus-Headed Postmodernism: The Opening Lines of ''Slaughterhouse-Five'']" in ''[[The Explicator]]'', 74:1, 8-11.</ref> Literary scholar Bran Nicol argues that Vonnegut's novel features "a more directly political edge to metafiction" compared to the writings of [[Robert Coover]], [[John Barth]], and [[Vladimir Nabokov]].<ref>Bran Nicol. ''The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 86.</ref>