The origin of metafiction is in the spurious truth claims about the "truth" of the made up story. In other words, the tropes that try to convince us that the story is real are metafictional, like the found manuscript. Once this trope (or anything like it) is laid bare or parodied, metafiction is born.
So it isn't fictionality that is highlighted, but truthiness.
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