Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium

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Jessica A. Folkart is associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech.

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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.

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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