Challenging Patriarchal Representations: Women's Metafictional Writing

In line with Friedman and Fuchs’s understanding of women’s experimental writing, I argue that through the means of metafiction, which subverts the established notions of realism and stresses the constructedness of reality, authors like Acker and Sapphire create room and possibility for women’s radical opposition against established norms of literary patriarchal structures as well as voice a call for their liberation. These works are rooted in the ideas of agency; through the experimental and metafictional form, they assert the writer’s freedom and thus give power to the marginalised feminine.