TY  - JOUR
T1  - POSSESSION: A ROMANCE AS AN EXAMPLE OF HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION
TT  - POSSESSION: A ROMANCE AS AN EXAMPLE OF HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION
AU  - Işık, Sevcan
PY  - 2018
DA  - December
JF  - İnönü Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
JO  - INIJOSS
PB  - Inonu University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2147-0936
SP  - 96
EP  - 103
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - This paper aims to analyze Antonia Susan Byatt’s novelPossession: A Romance as an example of a postmodernist historical novel or of ahistoriographic metafiction. Historiographic metafiction attemptsto concantrate on historical personages and past events which are not mentionedin history for political or moral reasons. Thus, the omitted events in historyare brought to the forefront and plural histories are produced as alternativesto the mentioned history with the retelling of the stories of the past inhistoriographic metafictions, which is resulted in creating a multiplicity ofhistories. Possession: A Romance canbe studied as a good example of historiographic metafiction as it has differentvoices and, thus, plural histories through questioning the line between fictionand history. It also defies the monology and problematizes the objectivity ofhistorical representations of two Victorian poets whose histories are silencedas they are found to be incompatible with the official history for moralreasons. Therefore, in contrast to the monology, the novel createsmultivocality allowing different voices to be heard through subverting thehistorical documents and events it refers to. Thus, historiographic metafictionbecomes a liberating force as it allows other histories to be told. Lastly, thenovel employs other metafictional elements such as making use of non-linearnarrative and emphasizing self-reflexivity through creating an untraditionalthird person omniscient narrator with a parodic intention.Keywords:Antonia SusanByatt, Possession: A Romance, historiographic metafiction, multivocality,history and fiction.
KW  - Antonia Susan Byatt
KW  - Possession: A Romance
KW  - historiographic metafiction
KW  - multivocality
N2  - ABSTRACTThis paper aims to analyze Antonia Susan Byatt’s novelPossession: A Romance as an example of a postmodernist historical novel or of ahistoriographic metafiction. Historiographic metafiction attemptsto concantrate on historical personages and past events which are not mentionedin history for political or moral reasons. Thus, the omitted events in historyare brought to the forefront and plural histories are produced as alternativesto the mentioned history with the retelling of the stories of the past inhistoriographic metafictions, which is resulted in creating a multiplicity ofhistories. Possession: A Romance canbe studied as a good example of historiographic metafiction as it has differentvoices and, thus, plural histories through questioning the line between fictionand history. It also defies the monology and problematizes the objectivity ofhistorical representations of two Victorian poets whose histories are silencedas they are found to be incompatible with the official history for moralreasons. Therefore, in contrast to the monology, the novel createsmultivocality allowing different voices to be heard through subverting thehistorical documents and events it refers to. Thus, historiographic metafictionbecomes a liberating force as it allows other histories to be told. Lastly, thenovel employs other metafictional elements such as making use of non-linearnarrative and emphasizing self-reflexivity through creating an untraditionalthird person omniscient narrator with a parodic intention.Keywords:Antonia SusanByatt, Possession: A Romance, historiographic metafiction, multivocality,history and fiction.
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/inijoss/article/486708
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/611732
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