Miscibility of Narrative Heterogeneity: Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth as a Hybrid Postmodernist Metafiction

Delving into the narration of ian mcewan's sweet tooth (2012), this enquiry unravels the threads of conventional realistic narrative and avant-garde postmodernist one in the tapestry of the novel, arguing that through the miscibility of these two heterogeneous modes of narration mcewan constructs a narrative meta-design that innovatively adds an enigmatic dimension to the spy novel genre. in his dual narrative that depends on verisimilitude as well as self-conscious reflexivity, he once again, a decade after his atonement (2002), demonstrates his literary taste for bridging the past and present. marinating his narrative in cold war events, and adding a dash of what linda hutcheon calls historiographic metafiction, he makes a postmodern signature dish that sustains its paradoxical hybridity: a representational self-reflexivity or an anti-representational reflexivity. aligned with monica cojocaru's detection of a metafictional twist in the novel as a part of her comparative investigation, this study discusses that sweet tooth 's dual narrative makes it eligible to wear the postmodern badge.