Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium

Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium
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The Ends of Spanish Identity
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611485806
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
278
Autor:
Jessica A. Folkart
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity examines how diverse manifestations of otherness coalesce in the cultural response to shifting perceptions of identity in Spain as well as the broader context of globalization at the turn of the millennium.
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminality—identity situated at a threshold, neither one thing nor another, but simultaneously both and neither—caused by encounters with otherness while negotiating identity in contemporary Spain. Examining how identity and alterity are parleyed through the cultural concerns of historical memory, gender roles, sex, religion, nationalism, and immigration, this study demonstrates how fictional representations of reality converge in a common structure wherein the end is not the end, but rather an edge, a liminal ground. On the border between two identities, the end materializes as an ephemeral limit that delineates and differentiates, yet also adjoins and approximates. In exploring the ends of Spanish fiction—both their structure and their intentionality—Liminal Fiction maps the edge as a constitutive component of narrative and identity in texts by Najat El Hachmi, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Javier Marías, Rosa Montero, and Manuel Rivas. In their representation of identity on the edge, these fictions enact and embody the liminal not as simply a transitional and transient mode but as the structuring principle of identification in contemporary Spain.
Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations

Chapter 1: On the Edge: Liminality and Spanish Identity at the Turn of the Millennium

Chapter 2: The (Never) Ending Story: Apocalyptic Desire and the Liminal Fiction of Javier Marías's Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí

Chapter 3: History Incarnate and the Liminal Body in Rosa Montero’s La hija del caníbal

Chapter 4: Second-Hand Identity: Limbs, Liminality, and Transplantation in Manuel Rivas’s A man dos paíños

Chapter 5: Ethical In-difference and Liminal Identity in Cristina Fernández Cubas’s Parientes pobres del diablo

Chapter 6: Scoring the National Hym(e)n: Sexuality, Immigration, and Liminal Identity in Najat El Hachmi’s L’últim patriarca

Conclusion: The End of Liminal Fiction

Afterword/Afterward

Works Cited

Index

About the Author


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