Re-telling Goa's History: The Margin Narrative

This paper presents the first reflexions about Margaret Mascarenhas-s novel, “Skin", based on post-colonial critic perception of History and its agents. By doing so, this study will put light on a literary corpus of Indian Literatures: the Goan Literature whose cultural basis creates an unique historiographic metafiction conducted by different characters that one by one plays the narrator role.

• Anna Beatriz Paula

• Goa
• History
• Literature
• Metafiction.

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