The Sot-Weed Factor as Metafiction
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Metafiction is postmodern literary form against realism and modernism. Many
writers use it for their different experimental purposes. Barth uses Metafiction to
refute traditional representation and historiography. He believespast events consist of
multiple chaotic fragments which are generalized by the historians so as to construct a
coherent and totalized history. However, Barth uses metafiction to affirm the
celebration of fragments.