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