Postmodern Concepts: Metafiction

[@larissarodrigues1234]

Thank you so much for this video. I've been having problems to understand metafiction and identifying its elements. Most explanations I find focus on works in which there is the explicit interaction with the reader. Love the examples you gave and that they appeared in novels as well.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. I am glad that this was of some use to you.

[@shakespearaamina9117]

Thank you for your help and your amazing videos! Allah bless you!

[@masoodraja]

You are welcome!

[@keabetswe3353]

Doc, you are phenomenal!!!

[@masoodraja]

Thank you

[@gbdeck200]

Feels like the current style of media is Post meta fiction All stories done and now just stories done for alternative reasons For praise and validation Not about content but clout sums up current era well

[@masoodraja]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[@khadijarafique9609]

You explained things really well. I have a question regarding the book Silent patient. Can it be placed in the category of post-modernism metafiction? It's a debut novel by Alex Michaelides where a narrator tells the story with his perspective, introduces himself in the third chapter and part of the novel may be a Protoganist. But the author is not a narrator itself.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Sorry, I have not read the book so have no opinion about it.

[@khadijarafique9609]

@@masoodraja Thanks for your quick response. One thing that bothers me is that is it necessary for an author to be self reflexive? Or the role can be performed by the narrator ( other than author) of the novel as well? In short can a third person narrative Novel comes under the category of metafiction? Would be glad to know the answer :)

[@masoodraja]

I would say it does not matter which narrative voice it is as long as it pints to the fictive part of the text. I suggest reading Linda Hutcheon’s book for a deeper understanding

[@khadijarafique9609]

@@masoodraja thank you so much. You clear all of my confusions. Allah bless you ✨

[@amnamanzoor6872]

What about the opening lines of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of the times; it was the worst of the times...''? Can we call it metafiction?

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. You will have to read carefully. Is it within the context of the story or referring to time outside the fictional plot. If the latter, then it will qualify as meta fiction. But for deeper understanding, I recommend reading Linda Hutheon’s discussion of historiographies meta fiction.

[@NasrullahSakhizada-p5i]

Was useful to my research

[@masoodraja]

Thank you.

[@bugrahankeskin9443]

Hello, i want to know that what is the difference between self-reflexivity and metafiction?

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Please watch my videos on both concepts and you will understand the difference. Mainly, self reflexivity is when a work points yo it’s own fictionality.

[@bugrahankeskin9443]

@@masoodraja I will watch, thank you for your answer sir. Have a nice evening.

[@abbasbazzi1707]

can you do a video for metanarrative. i think i confused metafiction for metanarrative. is metanarrative a hidden meaning?

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Please explore the channel. This might be helpful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmayk4Fjfs2Vi5I

[@lalsurya2275]

How can one differentiate between metafiction and metanarrative???

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. I would suggest reading up the definitions of both and then listing the differences.

[@masoodraja]

Here is a brief reply: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmayk4Fjfs2Vi5I

[@aryaravik8968]

Sir can you make a video on metamodernism?

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Yes, after I have had some time to explore the term in more detail.

[@jackquinnes]

What is actually a third-person 'observation' or 'voice' ? I haven't read the novel Shame , shame on me even if I have it on the shelf, twice the shame on me! Isn't it - a 3rd person voice/observer (i.e. observation) - a contradiction in terms?! 'Observation' and 'voice' are attributes of and references to the infamous, inescapable first person. Does Mr. Rushdie write in those snippets as follows: 'The next day Madame Curabachi left Karachi in a long, noisy caravan of cars , donkeys, and cows intermingling with each other like a multifaceted, multi-headed and quite complex and neurotic organism, a troubled incarnation of some Hindi God lost in Pakistan, perhaps, she grinned sarcastically as she gazed over the dust and traffic from her cozy whereabouts, a colourful, wooden, little cabin mounted on the back of an age-old, half-blind circus elephant.' Or: 'The next day, after having a quick, cold shower, except the water was lukewarm, sporadic and coloured red by iron oxide, I took a rickshaw to the main train station of Karachi knowing I would never return.' -- Okay, we can assume the correct answer is the former. But given the wording - voice/observation - we should infer further that Rushdie uses an omniscient narrator in this novel. Otherwise it would be a stretch to call a 3rd person point of view "observation" or "voice" of that imaginary 3rd person. But as we are obviously dealing with a somewhat postmodern work of metafiction, there cannot be a god-like narrator pulling all the strings, seeing and experiencing what others see and experience. Therefore we must regrettably conclude that third-person observations and voice make no sense in the given - if any - context. Did I miss something?

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. In Shame, Rushdie is using both. A fictional narrative and a few snippets that can only be attributed to the author and not the narrator. That is why I considered them metafictional. Otherwise, you can feel free to interpret the novel in a way that you think appropriate.

[@ShahidHussain-ne6en]

Sir kindly upload video about novel in 21st century.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. I do not have a video on it and it seems to be too broad a topic anyway.

[@lakshaykamboj6543]

Thanks sir

[@masoodraja]

You are welcome.