Metafictionist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A writer of metafiction.

    "As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass."

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"As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass."

Etymology

From metafiction + -ist.

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