Metafiction

Metafiction explores this popular genre and style, defined as a type of literature that philosophically questions itself, that repudiates the conventions of literary realism, that questions the relationship between fiction and reality, or that lies at the border between fiction and non-fiction.

Yaël Schlick is Professor of English at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Her research and teaching focus on travel writing, autobiography, American poetry, and contemporary fiction. She is the author of Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment (2012), co-editor of Refiguring the Coquette (2008), and translator of Victor Segalen's Essay on Exoticism (2002).