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Identity as Liminality in Post-Colonial Fiction: Nadine Gordimer.’s The Pickup and Bessie Head.’s A Question of Power

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Abstract: This paper sets out to analyze the interstitial/liminal aspect of postcolonial literature as ciphered in the narratives of Nadine Gordimer and Bessie Head. A Question of Power and The Pickup both voice hybrid subjects in terms of race and gender, and thus represent the new epistemological space that this literature opens up. Focusing on the shifting identities of the female characters in these novels, we will establish a connection between the praxis of post-colonial writing as a continuous refocusing of cultural certainties and the relocation of the familiar in the uncanny.Resumen: Este artículo pretende analizar el aspecto liminal de la literatura postcolonial tal y como se refleja en la narrativa de Nadine Gordimer y Bessie Head. A Question of Power y The Pickup articulan la voz de individuos híbridos en cuanto a raza y género, y, de este modo, representan el nuevo espacio epistemológico que esta literatura abre. Al centrarnos en las identidades variables de los personajes femeninos de estas novelas, trataremos de establecer una conexion entre la praxis de la literatura postcolonial como un continuo reajuste de certezas culturales y la reubicación de lo familiar en lo extraño.
Title: Identity as Liminality in Post-Colonial Fiction: Nadine Gordimer.’s The Pickup and Bessie Head.’s A Question of Power
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Abstract: This paper sets out to analyze the interstitial/liminal aspect of postcolonial literature as ciphered in the narratives of Nadine Gordimer and Bessie Head.
A Question of Power and The Pickup both voice hybrid subjects in terms of race and gender, and thus represent the new epistemological space that this literature opens up.
Focusing on the shifting identities of the female characters in these novels, we will establish a connection between the praxis of post-colonial writing as a continuous refocusing of cultural certainties and the relocation of the familiar in the uncanny.
Resumen: Este artículo pretende analizar el aspecto liminal de la literatura postcolonial tal y como se refleja en la narrativa de Nadine Gordimer y Bessie Head.
A Question of Power y The Pickup articulan la voz de individuos híbridos en cuanto a raza y género, y, de este modo, representan el nuevo espacio epistemológico que esta literatura abre.
Al centrarnos en las identidades variables de los personajes femeninos de estas novelas, trataremos de establecer una conexion entre la praxis de la literatura postcolonial como un continuo reajuste de certezas culturales y la reubicación de lo familiar en lo extraño.

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