Marina Warner's Indigo as ethical deconstruction and reconstruction.

Marina Warner's novel, Indigo, can be said to belong to what Linda Hutcheon, in A Poetics of Postmodernism, calls "historiographic metafiction," which looks to characterize a worldwide turn in contemporary fiction. Indeed, Indigo is plant in the context of the "proliferation of historical novels with more or les apparent metafictional traits" that began in Britain in the late 1970 (Onega 8) As Marina Warner said in 2001 "This impulse towards returning to the past, to a topos in the past and rewriting it has become highly characteristic of contemporary