HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN AMITAV GHOSHS NOVELS: THE SHADOW LINES, GLASS PALACE AND IN AN ANTIQUE LAND

The postmodernism is an era of revolution which calls for changes in every walk of life and all disciplines of knowledge such as literature, philosophy and science. Postmodernism not only rejects modernism but also modifies and overlaps modernism. The postmodern literature abrogates some modern literary techniques and styles. It also appropriates modern techniques by modifying them. Historiographic metafiction is a paradoxical term that consists of two different geners of history and metafiction. Hence, historiographic metafiction is called double self-reflexive because the historiographic metafictional writings reflect their own realistic as well as fictional status. These kinds of writings realize the readers that they are enjoying realistic and fictional texts. This paper systematically analyses the confirmations of historiographic metafiction and also emphasizes the historiographic metafictional features as imbedded in the novels of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh‟s The Glass Palace and In An Antique Land are the recreation of history with fictional background, characters and stories.