Linda Hutcheon

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Linda Hutcheon is University Professor in the Department of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she has taught since 1988. She specializes in theories of postmodernism. She has published numerous books, including The Politics of Postmodernism (Routledge, 1989). Hutcheon is also credited with coining the term historiographical metafiction, a descriptor for literary works she believes characterize postmodernism in fiction.

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