Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium

The Ends of Spanish Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvJessica A. Folkart

889 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Inbunden

2 009 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-07
Mått150 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor278
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781611485813

Tillhör följande kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationsChapter 1: On the Edge: Liminality and Spanish Identity at the Turn of the MillenniumChapter 2: The (Never) Ending Story: Apocalyptic Desire and the Liminal Fiction of Javier Marías's Mañana en la batalla piensa en míChapter 3: History Incarnate and the Liminal Body in Rosa Montero’s La hija del caníbalChapter 4: Second-Hand Identity: Limbs, Liminality, and Transplantation in Manuel Rivas’s A man dos paíñosChapter 5: Ethical In-difference and Liminal Identity in Cristina Fernández Cubas’s Parientes pobres del diabloChapter 6: Scoring the National Hym(e)n: Sexuality, Immigration, and Liminal Identity in Najat El Hachmi’s L’últim patriarcaConclusion: The End of Liminal FictionAfterword/AfterwardWorks CitedIndexAbout the Author

Folkart masterfully uses the theories of Emmanuel Lévinas to consider Christina Fernández Cuba’s Parientes pobres del diablo (2006) as an exploration of the ethics implicit in identity formation. . . .Folkart’s writing is clear, concise and eminently readable, giving the lie to the assumption that serious scholarship must equal dry prose. In the final analysis, Folkart’s thought provoking, superbly researched, and convincingly argued study of the palimpsest of Spanish identities makes this book an asset to contemporary literary and cultural studies.