Existeixen dos temes que travessen la totalitat de l’obra de Rodrigo Blanco Calderón: la violència i la literatura. Aquests problemes, i els diàlegs que estableixen entre ells, són explorats en la ...narrativa de l’escriptor veneçolà des de diverses perspectives. En conseqüència, podem parlar d’una literatura metafictícia que constantment reflexiona sobre les seves pròpies formes. “Uñas asesinas”, el relat que tanca el seu primer llibre ( Una larga fila de hombres ), aborda aquestes qüestions i les vincula a problemàtiques que existeixen en la societat moderna. Concretament, amb la manera en què la societat de consum malbarata constantment, trobant-se en l’aparatosa necessitat de fer-los desaparèixer. En aquest estudi, partirem de l’anàlisi realitzat per Zygmun Bauman a Vidas desperdiciadas . La modernidad y sus parias per analitzar el text de Blanco Calderón, veient com es relaciona aquest problema amb l’altre al qual es dedica l’autor veneçolà, la literatura.
In this article, I explore the relation between metafiction, humour and the fantastic genre in a selection of works of Ana Maria Shua. After analyzing how metafiction operates in Shua’s works, I try ...to show that this metatextual reflection produces different effects. If on the one hand, the reflection on the genre produces a humoristic effect, on the other hand, the presence of reflexive procedures like metalepsis and mise-en-abyme have a fantastic effect. In any event, we are faced with a self-conscious writing which is constantly questioning itself in a constant desire to renew the genre.
Historiographical metafiction (HUTCHEON, 1991) poses questions about the truth placed by official historiography and points out that there are truths now told through the voices of characters erased ...and silenced by official histories. Therefore, in this perspective, this article aims, as an unfolding from the historiographical metafiction theory (HUTCHEON, 1991) and based on (socio)linguistic theories (MATTOS E SILVA, 2004; LUCCHESI, 2009, 2017, 2019; CALLOU; LUCCHESI, 2020; LUCCHESI; CALLOU, 2020), to analyze the novel Um defeito de cor, by Ana Maria Gonçalves (20212006) – a Brazilian author who lives in Minas Gerais – , as a historiographical metafiction of the linguistic contacts that occurred in the formation of Brazil, and consequently of Brazilian Portuguese language. This proposal shows us the need for an intersection between Literature and Linguistic Theories, given the fact that fictional narratives can be used as a support for several debates, in Literature/Brazilian Portuguese courses, about the socio-historical contexts of Brazilian Portuguese language formation, considering, especially, the lack of good film production illustrating this period.
The purpose of this article is to analyse the symbology in the metaficcional universe created by Juan José Millás in Que nadie duerma (2018). First, it will analyse the writer’s narrative as part of ...his generation and focalising on the novel concept and the new literary movements in the last years such as autofiction, metafiction or neonovela. Then, we will study Que nadie duerma in three sections: familiar heritage of the protagonist and avian symbology within the narrative universe and her traumatic childhood. Secondly, the study of interartistic metaficcional games created by Juan José Millás and the existentialist inspiration (life as theatre, Calderón de la Barca), the fight of real versus fiction and the doubtfulness of the being. To sum up, we will analyse the cathartic ending as closure of his metafictional world.
Peter Ackroyd’s historiographic metafictional novel
(2006) entails a critical return to history – critical in the sense that it questions the essence of historical knowledge and revisits the past in ...order to comment on the politics of national identity. Beneath a façade of historicity, the novel explores the continuity of English cultural identity and narrates a fictional story that centres on the conflict of Catholicism and Protestantism in the context of post-Restoration emigration of Puritans from England to New England. The “old faith”, although marginalized, continued to exist in post-Reformation England. The novel ties the significance of Catholicism to a thorough sense of Englishness. Catholic faith is shown as an ancient anchor of English identity. Peter Ackroyd delves into the collective memory of his race in search of a sense of commonality, believing in the continuity of English national identity. Challenging humanist assumptions about historical authenticity, the novel calls into question the idea of religious homogeneity, offering a different narrative as equally valuable.
This study aims to spotlight the postmodern tendency of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy’s selected texts. Metafiction is self-conscious in relation to language, literary form, and storytelling in ...fiction. This form of fiction accentuates its construct and reminds the readers to be aware of a fictional work. Shenoy is a noteworthy postmodern writer, and her famous novels are ‘The Secret Wish List’ (2012) and ‘It Happens for Reason’ (2014). These two novels exhibit the subject of postmodern metafiction through her writings. In these novels, the protagonists overcome their family doctrines to fulfill their wishes. The method of study adopted the metafiction theories proposed by Mark Currie, Patricia Waugh, and Linda Hutcheon. It highlights Shenoy’s texts that represent the elements of metafiction through the protagonists. Using various theories related to postmodern metafiction, the view of metafiction in the texts is substantiated and explored. The postmodern perspective of metafiction is explored in Shenoy’s texts and analyzed with metafiction theories. The study results are compared and discussed with other studies and contemporary texts concerning metafiction. The findings show that metafiction is applicable in the texts of the two novels by Shenoy. She projects the aspects of metafiction in her works through her writing, especially narration, both fiction and reality.
This paper aims to investigate the short story “The Lunatic’s Eclipse” by the Arab-American Randa Jarrar and explain the postmodern techniques represented through the different functions of the moon. ...The study is qualitative research that employs postmodern strategies of magic realism, metafiction, carnivalesque, and intertextuality as the study's methodology. Through these strategies, the story blurs the boundaries between reality, magic, and fiction and unites them in one entity to highlight themes of freedom, happiness, and self-reliance. Therefore, the study relies on postmodern theorists' ideas and theories on these strategies, including Jean-Francois Lyotard, Linda Hutcheon, Franz Koh, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gerard Genette, and William Gass. The moon is also employed as a structure for the story and a theme that unites all the parts of the story together. The characters are also given names that mean different phases of the moon in Arabic. Jarrar uses the moon to resist stereotyping Arab women as weak and submissive.
The Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic, has been retold and rewritten in various narrative forms by numerous writers from different countries. It has a global appeal that has inspired authors worldwide ...to create unique Ramayanas. Among these recreations, Bhyrappa's Uttarakaanda stands out with its multiple story views. This research paper, titled “Subverting Patriarchal Narratives: Exploring Bhyrappa’s Depiction of Sita Through Historiographic Metafiction,” delves into the author's methods of retelling the age-old narrative. The present study utilizes the conceptual frameworks of postmodernism, with a particular emphasis on historiographic metafiction. By delving into the deconstruction of grand narratives and questioning traditional elements that impede women's rights, the article aims to shed light on important thematic concerns. Specifically, the primary focus of this research lies in the analysis of the author's work titled 'Sitayana,' where the narrative spotlight is shifted from Rama to Sita. Through a meticulous examination of the author's adept incorporation of alternative perspectives, the paper explores how this approach resonates with both Indian literature and its readership. Moreover, the article critically engages with the power dynamics that influenced Rama's actions and shaped his understanding of dharma.
Utwory kryminalne, w ktorych pojawiają się akcenty autotematyczne, funkcjonują na pograniczu dwu obiegow. Inspirowane schematem zaczerpniętym z popkultury, kryminały te nie są zarazem adresowane do ...jej konsumentow, lecz zwolennikow rozwiązań przełamujących czytelnicze przyzwyczajenia i skonwencjonalizowane formuły. W kryminale autotematycznym struktury fabularne zostają traktowane pretekstowo. Tym samym istotniejszy od nich staje się krytyczny namysł nad kulturowymi uwarunkowaniami, ktore miały wpływ na powstanie owych wzorcow. Aby możliwe stało się takie przeniesienie uwagi, tworcy literatury kryminalnej sięgają w tym celu najczęściej do jednego z trzech następujących sposobow tematyzowania zagadnień metaliterackich:
– sięganie po parateksty w charakterze sygnałow autoreferencyjności;
– intencjonalne przywoływanie ostentacyjnie skonwencjonalizowanych rozwiązań, opatrzonych niekiedy autotematycznymi komentarzami;
– intencjonalne przekraczanie „horyzontu oczekiwań” czytelnika.
Wymienione tu strategie nie mają charakteru wykluczających się nawzajem rozwiązań, toteż zdarza się, że ich elementy możemy odnaleźć w jednym utworze. Zarazem wyodrębnienie ich pozwala dostrzec rożnorodność chwytow autotematycznych, wykorzystywanych przez autorow opowieści „o zbrodni i karze”.
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many ...inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish culture. Grant FFI2017-84619-P AEI, ERDF, EU (INTRUTHS “Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction”) Funded by the Spanish Research Agency AEI http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF "A Way of Making Europe"
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