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postmodern novels that are highly self-aware about their own fictionality while engaging real historical events and figures, questioning how the past can be known.

In literary theory, historiographic metafiction refers to postmodern novels that are highly self-aware about their own fictionality while engaging real historical events and figures, questioning how the past can be known. This meaning comes from Hutcheon (1988) in A poetics of postmodernism: history, theory, fiction.[1]

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  1. Hutcheon, L. (1988). A poetics of postmodernism: history, theory, fiction. Routledge. ISBN 9780415007054

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