FROM „CROSSING THE RIVER“ TO „THE LOST CHILD“: A GENEALOGY OF LIMINAL SPACE

Наслеђе 52 (2022), стр. 147-160

АУТОР(И): Arijana M. Luburić Cvijanović

Е-АДРЕСА: alcvijanovic@ff.uns.ac.rs

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DOI: 10.46793/NasKg2252.147LC

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Reflecting his protagonists’ scattered lives and sense of displace- ment, Caryl Phillips’s proverbial spatial and temporal criss-crossing creates a liminal chronotope which shelters an assortment of exiles, refugees, outcasts, and orphans from different geographical, cultural, and historical backgrounds. His suitably compartmentalised yet cohe- sive narrative structures stray away from any traditional form of the novel, producing shifting structural arrangements and evoking con- temporary cosmopolitan redefinitions of  space.  This  article focuses on several novels by Phillips and combines cosmopolitan theory and geocriticism, with some  postcolonial  theory,  to  trace  a  genealogy  of global liminal space established through kaleidoscopic spatio- temporal  disruptions.  By  adopting  a  cross-disciplinary  approach,   it hopes to show how the breadth of Phillips’s perspective reflects on the affinity between space, memory, and amnesia in nonelite forms of cosmopolitanism.

КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ:

chronotope, community, Caryl Phillips, cosmopolitan- ism, geocriticism, space

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