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Title Labyrinth without Centre: A Historiographic Metafictional Study of Ghosh, Vizenor and Dangarembga.

Author(s) Ms. Fahmida Manzoor

Abstract ABSTRACT Thesis Title: Labyrinth without Center: A Historiographic Metafictional Study of Ghosh, Vizenor and Dangarembga This study is designed to trace the subversion of official version of history in fiction through Postmodern Historigraphic Metafiction. Historiographic Metafiction dismantles the metanarrative of official history and raises the voice of the silenced subjects. This study examines three novels from different colonized regions and traces the effects of colonization on cross-cultural national and individual identities. The study is, thus, grounded in Linda Hutcheon’s Postmodern Historiographic Metafictional theory for the investigation of the subversive strategies employed by the colonizers. The study shows that fiction unveils official history and provides new perspectives of untold historical events. The subversion is done through the device of parody, self reflexivity and intertextuality. It exhibits that truth has different dimensions and cannot be governed by one specific meta narrative. History in the same vein has different perspectives and mini narratives are equally important as meta narratives. The study highlights the main discursive strategies that are education, language, culture and religion through which the binary of us and them identity was constructed. The study shows that the colonial experiences pertaining to the three regions are the same with regard to identity construction and deconstruction. The literature of all three regions exhibits resistance against the brutality and cultural genocide by the colonizers. The study is significant as it proves that fiction is also a document of history which is equally important as the meta narrative of official history. The study adds a significant dimension in the theory of Postmodern Historigraphic Metafiction by studying it through postcolonial lens.

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2019-09-13

Subject PhD English Literature

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