This special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing focuses on how liminalities are being represented and reoriented in postcolonial literatures. 

Table of contents

Articles

Introduction
Janet Wilson and Daria Tunca

Re-Incorporative trajectories: The threshold as emblem in Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City
Norbert Bugeja

Shakespeare’s sisters in Istanbul: Grace Ellison and the politics of feminist friendship
Asako Nagai

Pathway under Construction, Spirituality in Unexpected Places: Nadine Gordimer’s Recent Fiction
Ileana Dmitriu

The City of Refuge: Deconstructing cosmopolitanism in Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering
Natalie Diebschlag

Postcolonial Epic Rewritings and the Poetics of Relation: A Glissantian reading of Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel and Derek Walcott’s Omeros
Sneharika Roy

Performing Blackness in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark
Serena Guarracino

Caryl Phillips’s drama: liminal fiction under construction?
Benedicte Ledent

“As there are hyena-men and panther-men …” Chris Abani, Pieter Hugo, and the shocking life of images
Annalisa Oboe

Savors of place: V.S. Naipaul’s enigma of departure
Stanka Radovic

Reviews