Special interest in the Victorian age, the 1960s but also WWII. Possession, Angels and Insects. Relationship between real and fiction, past and present, interdependence and sense of ownership between lovers, issue of female creativity. Magic realism; Salman Rushdie. Historiographic metafiction. Magic realism first appeared already after WWI. Part of postmodernism. Combines dream-‐like elements with realism. Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, D.M. Thomas, Kate Atkinson (Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry; Skellig by David Almond).
It tricks us by hiding unexpected or suggestive content in what at first might seem to be ...plurality of worlds and truth. PM play with the time: ,,badly wrong" from whom point of view? Stress on 'the wrong', 'the unreal'- a postmodern challenge to the existing certainity about 'the real' Linda Hutcheon: we are hardly likeli to kow the 'real' expect through representations The `real' and its representations (examples from A. Carter). 18. Historiographic Metafiction. Linda Hutcheon. History as a collection of representations. Historiographic Metafiction and Magic realism in the writings of Salman Rushdie. Postcolonial situation and Postcolonial trauma. Historiographic metafiction is a term originally coined by literary theorist Linda Hutcheon. According to Hutcheon, in "A Poetics of Postmodernism", works of historiographic metafiction are
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