An Analysis of Multilateral Postmodernism of Sooratakhaye Taslim in the Light of Historiographic Metafiction

Postmodern novels are a specific kind of contemporary novels. They are based on a wide diversity of tendencies which, albeit subsumed under some common aims and objectives, brought about profound novelistic differences among them and attributed them such different titles as Syberpanic novels, magic realism, metafiction, historiographic metafiction, etc. Basically, postmodern novels are oriented to one of such tendencies. However, the primary concern of the present article is the study of a Persian novel entitled as Sooratakhaye Taslim by Mohammad Ayoobi whose postmodern features are multilateral and based on a variety of tendencies. Whereas in some aspects the novel is magic realist, in some other it is a metafiction and also in some other, thanks to its historical orientation is a historiographic metafiction. In this context, the present research, highlighting the magic realist and metafiction aspects of the novel, focuses on one of the postmodern aspects of the novel which is based on the manipulation of history and the parody of what is called the historical facts in the novel. The research is written in applied form and in the light of Linda Hutcheon’s theory. The research demonstrated that there are such features in this novel as specific novelistic techniques, multiplicity of points of view, unreliable narrator, fake history, anachronism, intertextuality, irony, discrediting history, challenge the dominant historical discourses and highlight its historiographic Metafictional aspect.