II—Fictional, Metafictional, Parafictional

Phantom Pre-texts and Fictional Authors: Sidi Hamid Benengeli, Don Quijote and the Metafictional Conventions of Chivalric Romances

Why Don Quijote’s Battle Continues in Contemporary Cuban Literature: Tres tristes tigres and El mundo alucinante

The 1960s was a particularly productive decade for Latin American literature. In those years, Latin American writers produced an astounding number of excellent novels that are marked by their incredible diversity in style and/or content. Despite their variety, however, there are some common characteristics such as the recurrent theme of metafictional concerns, the presence of intertextuality, t...

Historiographic Metafiction

What we tend to call postmodernism in literature today is usually characterized by intense self-reflexivity and overtly parodic intertextuality. In fiction this means that it is usually metafiction that is equated with the postmodern. Given the scarcity of precise definitions of this problematic period designation, such an equation is often accepted without question. What I would like to argue ...

Reality, Imagination and Possible Worlds in American Postmodern

It seems it is especially postmodern literature that undermines the belief in a clear and direct relationship between the physical world and the language depicting it. Quite recently, especially the possible worlds theories and their application in literary theory have tried to explain this relationship. Analyzing the narrative techniques used by Donald Barthelme in his short story The Dragon, ...

different crusoes: multiplicity of voice in j. m. coetzee’s foe and he and his man

almost three centuries after the publication of the life and adventures of robinson crusoe, j. m. coetzee re-imagines the original story in two different versions; foe (1986) and his nobel prize acceptance speech, he and his man (2003). the recreation of one of the early novels of the western literary canon from the viewpoint of a marginalized character, which is technically called postcolonial...