Historiographic Metafiction in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves

<p>The research paper aims to trace how Louise Erdrich explicates history in her novel<br>The Plague of Doves and analyze its central issue about history and how it is<br>presented. This paper references Linda Hutcheon's A Poetics of Postmodernism:<br>History, Theory, Fiction (1988). This embodies the traits of "historiographic<br>metafiction," a postmodern literary subgenre whose main objective is to refute<br>generally accepted assumptions regarding historical investigations. It also focuses on<br>the features that make it a particular case in the postmodern historical novel, and it<br>tries to analyze this novel with utter importance from the historiographic<br>metafictional perspective.</p>