Constructing a Metafiction
What is metafiction?
These particular conventions are employed in the construction of a metafiction:
• reality is no longer understandable; history is just fiction (or constructions) (Fran Hilfigure - "Theories for a New Era")
• language as an arbitrary system (J. T. Singleton - "The Typographer")
Jane Singleton’s book entitled “The Typographer” is a science metafiction where reality dovetails with unreality. Part cyberpunk it considers certain aspects of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto and blends this with the scholarship of Derrida by way of negative capability. That is to say, that doubts and the grasping at meaning are suspended - but we are still left in suspense.
• the paradoxical status of author--power or no power (Franz Hidlberg -"Little Green Men")
• foregrounding the fiction of fiction and reality (Jane C. Hornby's "Bridges")
• intertextuality (Paul Johnson - "Earthquakes")
These particular conventions are employed in the construction of a metafiction:
• reality is no longer understandable; history is just fiction (or constructions) (Fran Hilfigure - "Theories for a New Era")
• language as an arbitrary system (J. T. Singleton - "The Typographer")
Jane Singleton’s book entitled “The Typographer” is a science metafiction where reality dovetails with unreality. Part cyberpunk it considers certain aspects of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto and blends this with the scholarship of Derrida by way of negative capability. That is to say, that doubts and the grasping at meaning are suspended - but we are still left in suspense.
• the paradoxical status of author--power or no power (Franz Hidlberg -"Little Green Men")
• foregrounding the fiction of fiction and reality (Jane C. Hornby's "Bridges")
• intertextuality (Paul Johnson - "Earthquakes")
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