Atkinson (Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry; Skellig by David Almond). Characters with additional powers: for instance, telepathy, the ability of flight or telekinesis, (semi-‐)immortality, etc. Magic realism became prominent in English literature in the 1980s, often associated with historiographic metafiction. Subvert reality – the idea that reality is not always what it seems. One of the main theoreticians of postmodernism and also magic realism is Linda Hutcheon. Salman Rushdie (1947, in India) – examines many historical and philosophical issues,
third-wave feminism. Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician S. de Beauvoir `Second Sex' to describe women because she believes them to be an oppressed and marginalized group dominated in every aspect of society. 16. Angela Carter. The evolution of the writer's career 1960s-1990s: from radicalism to magic realist metafiction. Femininity as a constructed notion in A. Carter's short stories, novels and non-fiction. New Woman changing old rules in Nights at the Circus and The Loves of Lady Purple. Angela Carter (7 May 1940 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother
Vidal claims that it was just a fight for money. Washington approved of slavery, dissaproved the french revolution. Burr makes fun of Europeans who came to fight for American independence, De la Fayatte, Jefferson, who had always been considered progressive man is less symphatical than Washington. Drawing these parallels Vidal shows that corruption has always been in the American government. 24.04.2013 Historiografic metafiction as a post-modern genre, in her, Hutcheon (Canadian writer), theorie (historiografie was history is recorded/metafiction fiction about fiction). The recordgin of historical facts and fictions. The techniques have narrative quality. It's a literary genre that denies the traditional reliability concept of history but at the same time attempts to reclaim historical sigunificants. An important feature is blurring the line between history and fiction