Historiographic Metafiction

Question 1

Hutcheon: discourses

Answer 1

Must acknowledge both history and fiction as discourses
Must be ‘both inside and outside the dominant discourses’
Makes reader and writer more self-conscious

Question 2

Hutcheon: realm

Answer 2

‘Realm of representation, not simulation’

Question 3

Hutcheon: what does ‘re-writing’ or ‘re-presenting’ do?

Answer 3

To ‘re-write or re-present’ past opens it up to modern interpretation
[Function? Ethical interpretations?]

Question 4

Elton

Answer 4

‘Metaficitonal defamiliarisation of discourse’

‘question…ethically and politically valid relation to history’

Question 5

Currie

Answer 5

Argues that ‘dramatised narrators’ appear in most fiction - so is all fiction metaficitonal?

Question 6

White

Answer 6

Narrative of history means it cannot be neutral

Question 7

Nunning

Answer 7

‘once narrative is understood as socially constructed, narratives become valuable sources for cultural history’