The postmodern interrogation of the very ontology of history continues to extend the frontiers of fiction. With the accessibility of history predicated on memory and its representation on textuality, history invariably tends to replicate the processes of fiction, given that memory is selective and that the textualized event is narrated. Noting this interface between fiction and history, the South African novelist and scholar, Andre Brink (1998), remarks that the (auto)biography like history is seen to be based on what is consensually approved as real but contends that

Yet if the (auto)biography is marked by a colourful reinvention of the past, official historiography, created to perpetuate the status quo, demonstrably derives its hegemonic power by professionally simultaneously ‘mythologizing’ history while reinforcing the myth of history as a disinterested and objective record of events. Thus the memoir, an individual's record of their perception of momentous public events, subjective, biased, represents an invaluable interrogation of and complement to official chronicles, even while remaining a literary event.