Historiographic metafiction in ishmael reed's flight to Canda
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2016
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university of Oum El Bouaghi
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In the world of Literature, many writers write a myriad of novels in the genre of postmodern literature in general, and some distinct authors write under the Historiographic metafiction. Which is the combination between fiction and history. So, each story varies from each other in a sense of the order of events, or the idea pictured in the story. This research investigates the correlation between history and metafiction and how it turned to recast the past. It is also involved in black postmodern writers and techniques of Historiographic metafiction. In fact, numerous contributors, especially the afro-american postmodern writers have moved from fiction to historiographic metafiction to show changes and revisionism of history. This inquiry concentrates on Historiographic metafiction in Ishmael Reed's flight to Canada (1976).It explicates how this writer manages to portray the past and real historical events through the use of metafiction.It projects the complementary relationship between History and metafiction in literature and that literature of afro-american writers can serve the literature and history to give the impression that literature is not less when comparing it with history, they are two sides of the same coin.
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Novel : Ishmael : Reed's flight : (Canda)