Metafiction

Metafiction---looks like it is the perfect type of fiction for us, folks. Note the term "self-reflexivity" is used twice in the second paragraph. The myth of objectivity continues to be addressed.

Definitions
Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. In providing a critique of their own methods of construction, such writings not only examine the fundamental structures of narrative fiction, they also explore the possible fictionality of the world outside the literary fictional text. (Waugh 2).

Although implicit in many other types of tichonal works, self-reflexivity often becomes the dominant subject of postmodern fiction. In 1970, William H. Gass wrote an essay in which he dubbed the novel's self-reflexive tendency "metafiction" (Waugh 2). Critics of post-modern metafiction claim that it marks the death or exhaustion of the novel as a genre, while advocates argue that it signals the novel's rebirth. Devotees claim that other genres have undergone the same critical self-reflexivity and that the definition of the novel itself, "notoriously defies definition"(Waugh 5). Waugh comments that, "contemporary metafictional writing is both a response and a contribution to an even more thoroughgoing sense that reality or history are provisional: no longer a world of external verities but a series of constructions, artifices, impermanent structures"(Waugh 7).