Metafictional Historiography in Kathryn Stockett’s Novel the Help

This paper analyses how the novel TheHelp blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. The novel describes the event of the Civil Rights Movement, the laws of segregation and intimidation. It takes theoretical insights on Historiographic Metafiction from by Linda Hutcheon, and Hyden white and studies how this novel blurs the distinction between fact and fiction and presents the critique of racial stereotyping present in American society.