The genre is fiction which combines the literary device of
metafiction with
historical fiction. Works regarded as historiographic metafiction are also distinguished by frequent allusions to other artistic, historical and literary texts (i.e.,
intertextuality) in order to show the extent to which works of both literature and
historiography are dependent on the history of discourse. Although Hutcheon said that historiographic metafiction is not another version of the
historical novel, there are scholars (e.g.,
Monika Fludernik) who describe it as such, citing that it is simply an updated late-twentieth-century version of the genre for its embrace of the conceptualizations of the novel and of the historical in the twentieth century. This is demonstrated in the genres that historiographic metafiction parodies, which it uses and abuses so that each parody constitutes a critique in the way it problematizes them. This process is also identified as "subversion" for the purpose of exposing suppressed histories to allow the redefinition of reality and truth. == Examples ==