surfiction

surfiction

English

Etymology

Coined by Raymond Federman in his 1973 manifesto "Surfiction—A Position".

Noun

surfiction (uncountable)

1. A style of fiction that rejects realism and advertises its own fictional status, similar to metafiction, postmodernism or fabulation.
   • 2009 Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, Harvard University Press, p. 9.

     ...it was of a piece with a broader postwar codification and intensification of modernist reflexivity in the form of what came to be called "surfiction" or, more durably, "metafiction."

References

• "Surfiction", Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.