Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barn

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Examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. The book points to the shortcomings of theories of metafiction founded on studies o

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A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.