METAFICTION AND POSTMODERNISM: DISCUSSION OF THE RELATIONSHIP

Abstract

Although the techniques of metafiction have a history that dates back to some of the oldest samples of fiction from the UK, Europe, and America, the use of metafiction, shaky narration, self-reflection, intertextuality are characteristics of postmodern literature. The writings of writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Philip K. Dick, Kathy Acker, and John Barth contributed significantly to the powerful emergence of this experimental literary movement in the United States throughout the 1960s. Since postmodernist writing originally appeared in the setting of political movements in the 1960s, it has been suggested that the fact that postmodernists frequently question authority as a symptom of this. [Linda Hutcheon,1988:202] Postmodern literature is immensely self-reflexive about the political themes it speaks to, which is one way to see this inspiration