Contested Identities : Migrant Stories and Liminal Selves in Andrea Levy's Small Island

International audienceOur aim is to demonstrate that Levy's poetics of urban and insular space in the context of migrancy as well as her formal approach to fictional writing (with a non-linear, rhizomorphic narrative structure and alterning multiple voices) rest on the tension between two main concepts: insularity and liminality, bounded space and thresholds to be crossed, whether they be national, cultural or textual.Cet article vise à démontrer que la poétique de l'espace urbain et insulaire dans un contexte de migration ainsi que l'approche formelle de l'écriture fictionnelle chez Levy (structure narrative en rhizome, multiplicité de points de vue) reposent sur la tension entre deux concepts: insularité et liminalité, seuils et espaces clos, qu'il soient nationaux, culturels ou textuels