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HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION'
literary genres and history. The Greek and Roman writers who
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and to historical truth. During the nineteenth century the
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novels and narrative histories in the eighteenth century
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rather than reduce it to any category. Braudy stresses the
literary history.
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to downplay the role of the "literary
history of historiography.
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of fixed meanings when there were no fixed bonds between
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essays lies in their insights into the ways by which
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Mink(1981) contests Whites position on morality asserting
though they are presented as if they did" may not hold when
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metafiction. Scholes acceptance of the boundaries between
does not use any kind of technical jargon like pure sciences
do.
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classify the "deep structural- forms of the historical
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to White. While the first three tropes are used when there
metafiction.
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substance(Ns) for a collection of statements that deal with
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Whites tropology and Ankersmits 'narrative logic
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In the context of the late twentieth century
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Rushdie lives in England. As writers all four seem acutely
not arrive at the time of his birth until the end of Book
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man and his Indian maid. He was not born a Muslim and he
wasnt Saleem Sinai. He should have been Shiva, who was the
death which could cut his story short. For each year of his
and marks certain other events for the drastic impact they
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TGIN is autobiographical but it is more V.V.s version
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Old Gangaji too
is a good Hindu
(TGIN 26)
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The predominant concern in IAAL may be seen to be
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1988, he also reconstructs his perceptions in 1980 and 1988.
the ways in which he had looked back in the past, Ami tab is
knew. Ami tabs journey through time and space touches many
this thesis between Ami tab, the narrator of IAAL and Amitav.
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collections from which he gathered relevant documents and
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Salem Bibi in Mughal paintings, is related to her. Hannah
Easton is also a route which may help her trace the diamond.
research does not mean the same thing that it does for
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computer every piece of information about it. This mass of
is created. Any person can then enter the programme and 'go
outsider.
under scrutiny are available, one cannot but agree with John
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Postmodernism
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defines postmodernism..."(52). Hutcheon's concept of
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the privileging of 'serious literature over popular art and
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with "argument by historicism"(historiographic) in such a
discourse.
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transparency of historical referentiality. By questioning
a. Referentialitv of Narrative
novels.
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context of the 'real, knowledge of which has already been
b. Challenging History
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History is given a continuity and a completion by
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historiography. Historiographic metafiction "situates"
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traditional boundaries set up between disciplines and
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overlapping of power politics and discursive formation.
discourses.
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correlative of the decentring of the subject and of history.
and TGIN and the use of the first person singular pronoun
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various illustrations. No detailed study of a single text
types of discourse.
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publication the peripheral character of Indian English
Each of the four texts uses history in its own way. The
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