Intertextuality Between History and Fictions:“Historiographic Metafiction”Based on the Neo-historical Position

The concept of metafiction,raised by famous Canadian theorist Linda Hutcheon,refers to a trend of postmodern experimental creation which appeared in 1960s and 70s in the field of European and American literature. This kind of fiction juxtaposes history with fiction through the recontextualization of historical figure and plot,bears the self-referential characteristic of metafiction, meanwhile includes lots of historical material,thus both embodies and blurs the binary between history and fiction,expresses the paradox of postmodern literature. This concept aroused hot reflection in the range of western literary criticism. Mark Currie made detailed analysis about this concept,pointing out that one of the most influential narrative functions of historiographic metafiction is to reveal the subjectivity of history. This concept illustrates the idea of neo-historicism: there's no classified system in the intertextuality between history and fiction,both of them are the compositions of cultural representing system.