Published on May 2021 | Historiographic Metafiction

Comparative Analysis of Historiographic Metafiction in Winterson's The Passion and Morrison's Beloved

The prime intend of the current research is to comparatively evaluate two postmodern novels i.e. Jeanette Winterson‘s The Passion and Toni Morrison‘s Beloved through the perspective of historiographic metafiction. Hence, researcher is designed to analyze and highpoint the historical reality and identity through the lens of literal and fictional perspective. Historiographic metafiction is an imperative gadget to pinpoint the historical chronicles of the actual events at one hand and the fictional and literal perception at the other without being slice of conformist historical writers or writings where history is obtainable in an objective and sequential style. In order to comparatively analyze both the novels the researcher has utilized qualitative and descriptive approach. The foremost source of analysis is the text of the novels and purposive sampling maneuver has been operated to disintegrate historiographic metafictional rudiments from the novels and then concisely both the novels have been analyzed and pronounced. The analysis is clinched on the note that both the novels are having exact essence of historiographic metafiction. Similarities and dissimilarities have been fetched to light by the researcher to throw light on the insight of literal and fictional reality in both the novels. The slant of both novelists is distinctively dissimilar the way they have treated historical realities and identities and have offered the concept of multiple interpretations and identities.