metafictionist

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noun

A writer of metafiction.

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Meanings

nounmetafictionist (plural metafictionists)

plural metafictionists

  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.

    2008 February 24, David Hajdu, “Jazz Man”, in New York Times

Origin

From metafiction + -ist.

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APA

metafictionist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metafictionist

MLA

“metafictionist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metafictionist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metafictionist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metafictionist.

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