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Metafictional
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Metafiction.
Since the 1980s, contemporary Latino literature has an abundance of self-reflexive, metafictional works, including novels and short stories by Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), Sandra Cisneros (Caramelo), Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper), Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties), Rita Indiana (Tentacle), and Valeria Luiselli (Lost Children Archive).