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Defining Metabiography in Historical Perspective: Between Biomyths and Documentary
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 38, Number 3, Summer 2015
- pp. 325-342
- 10.1353/bio.2015.0032
- Article
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There is a certain degree of confusion regarding the term “metabiography,” which has been used to refer to both comparative historiographical studies and postmodern narratives. While metabiography may come of age with postmodernism, its concerns with self-consciousness and fictionality are at once older and more universal.