RETELLING THE HISTORY: ANALYSIS OF DOCTOROW’S HOMER AND LANGLEY ON ACCOUNT OF HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION

Abstract

The focus of the study is to trace the intertextual references of the American civil war through E. L. Doctorow’s historic fiction Homer and Langley from the genre of postmodern Historiographical metafiction. He problematizes the grand narrative of the reality of the ideology of the American dream. Doctorow painted the real picture of American culture and their attitude towards war victims, slavery, political instability, and migration due to war in his fiction on real patterns. Doctorow’s postmodern narrative is the transformation of the daily historical chronicles. This research is the real picture of American war genres and their future impacts. The qualitative study of the novel in the light of Lyotard’s postmodern theoretical impression will explore the problematizing of the grand narrative of the historical truths to understand the reality of the American dream.