Abirami.V. Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, is a brilliant example for intertextuality since it is a blend of fact and fiction. Atwood has reconstructed the nineteenth century historical fiction based on a felonious twin murder and this research paper delves into the historical and literary intertextuality focusing on the historical facts along with the fictional elements…
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INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE TRUTH OF ACHEBE’S FICTION: MILITARISED NIGERIAN POSTCOLONY IN ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
Uzoechi Nwagbara Greenwich School of Management, UK uzoechin@yahoo.com Abstract This paper critically examines the centrality of intertextuality in the production and appreciation of Chinua Achebe’s fiction, mainly, his political novel about militarism, Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Intertextuality deals with relations among texts: no text is an island. The departure from monolithic, author-centred theory of…
Narration and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison’s Jazz Mahboobeh KhaleghiResearch Scholar, Department of English,University of Mysore, Mysore, India“I am the name of the soundand the sound of the name.I am the sign of the letterand the designation of the division.”(“The Thunder, Perfect Mind”, The Nag Hammadi)“The persona of the novel is mysterious, and it is not…