Metafictional Rethinking of Representation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) and Shame (1983).
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
Metafiction is a literary technique used by postmodernist novelists such as Salman Rushdie. The metafictional strategies deployed in metafiction highlight its status as an artifact. Also, they make it a subversive genre on many levels, and particularly on the level of form. Some of the metafictional aspects which feature in Rushdie’s novels, namely, Midnight's Children (MCH) and Shame (SH), are the non-linear narrative, the self-conscious comments of the author/narrator, the highly-intrusive author, the author’s digressions and the reader’s involvement in the narrative, hence, blurring the conventional clear-cut distinction between author and reader. Keywords: Non-linearity- Self-reflexivity- Fictionality - Metafictionality
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Béchir Chaabane
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