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Literary criticisms, book reviews, academic papers, short fiction by Boo Sujiwaro
A Paradox of the Postmodern: Julian Barnes’ ‘The Stowaway’ — A Literary Analysis
A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters showcases the discursive nature of history through the reconstructions of the metanarratives. In ‘The Stowaway’, Julian Barnes demonstrates, what Linda Hutcheon calls, one of ‘the paradoxes that characterize all postmodern discourses’ when he assumes the ‘genuine historicity’ of the Bible narrative in an attempt to destabilise its authority as the determining source of historical knowledge.