Historiographic Metafiction in The Postmodern Arabic and Latin novel: in Mawt Saġīr and Sāʿī Barīd Nayrūdā

Abstract

This paper discusses the representation of historiographic metafiction in the postmodern Arabic and Latin novel. Linda Hutcheon coined the term of Historiographic metafiction. She claims that the postmodern novel contains selfreflexivity, intertextuality, parody. Although some critics see that the postmodern novel is western, Edward Saeed argues that art is “worldly”; therefore, Hutcheon sees that the postmodern novel may be “worldly”. The researcher relies on Saeed and Hutcheon to argue that the representation of historiographic metafiction may be found in Mawt Saġīr and Sāʿī Barīd Nayrūdā.