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T1 Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories
A1 Sacido Romero, Jorge
K1 liminality
K1 short story
K1 black British authors
K1 Koye Oyedeji
K1 Pete Kalu
K1 Valda Jackson
AB As is widely known, “liminality” is a term derived from the Latin wordlimen, “threshold”; it designates an interspace to be crossed, a borderbetween two locations to be traversed. In this chapter, I will be dealingwith varying degrees of failure to go across the threshold or borderlinebetween spaces, moments or situations in three short stories by contemporaryblack British writers: Koye Oyedeji’s “Home: The Place Where YouBelong (Memoirs of a Modern-Day Slave)” (2000), Pete Kalu’s “GettingHome: A Black Urban Myth (The Proofreader’s Sigh)” (2015) and ValdaJackson’s “An Age of Reason (Coming Here)” (2015). The difficulties tocross, or, even more importantly, to cross back and forth, to negotiate aninterspace are experienced by the stories’ central characters as traumatisingobstacles on the way to find a desirable safe anchorage for the self, to reacha point of existential balance, a sense of belonging or feeling at “home”.
SN 978-3-030-30359-4
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34513
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34513
LA eng
NO Sacido-Romero, J. (2019). Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories. In: Korte, B., Lojo-Rodríguez, L. (eds) Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30359-4_7
NO In Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story. Edited by Barbara Korte and Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez, 2019, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Springer Nature Switzerland AG
DS Minerva
RD 4 may 2026