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1、JournalofPostcolonialWritingISSN:1744-9855(Print)1744-9863(Online)Journalhomepage:http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjpw20Postcolonialthresholds:GatewaysandbordersJanetWilson&DariaTuncaTocitethisarticle:JanetWilson&DariaTunca(2015)Postcolonialthresholds:Gatewaysandborders,JournalofPostcoloni
2、alWriting,51:1,1-6,DOI:10.1080/17449855.2014.988434Tolinktothisarticle:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2014.988434Publishedonline:13Dec2014.SubmityourarticletothisjournalArticleviews:624ViewrelatedarticlesViewCrossmarkdataFullTerms&Conditionsofaccessandusecanbefoundathttp://www.tandfon
3、line.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rjpw20Downloadby:[111.122.198.185]Date:06March2016,At:01:21JournalofPostcolonialWriting,2015Vol.51,No.1,1–6,http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2014.988434INTRODUCTIONPostcolonialthresholds:GatewaysandbordersabJanetWilson*andDariaTuncaabUniver
4、sityofNorthampton,UK;UniversityofLiège,BelgiumThisspecialissueoftheJournalofPostcolonialWritingfocusesonconceptsofthethreshold,aubiquitousterminpostcolonialcriticism,whichalongwithcognatelabelsliketheliminal,theinterstitialandthein-betweencontributestotheredefiningofper-ceptionsofspaceandp
5、lacethatishappeningunderglobalization.“Thresholdconcepts”(ViljoenandVanderMerwe,3,9,citedinBugeja2012,3)areassociatedwithpostco-lonialism’stheoreticalpurchasethroughpost-structuralistthoughtasoutlinedintheworkofcriticssuchasEdwardSaidandRobertYoung,andmostnotablytheconceptsofthirdspaceand
6、culturalhybriditydevelopedbyHomiBhabha.TheyhavebeenusedasaproductivecountertotheManicheanbinariesofperipheryandcentre,eastandwest,theglobalsouthandnorth,thatrecentpostcolonialcriticismchallengesandaimstoreconfigure.Incurrentthinking,thresholdconceptsformulatethe“middlepassage”(Bhabha1994,5
7、)or“middleground”ofthepostcolonial,whereidentitiescanmeta-morphoseorbetransformedandpowerrelationsnegotiated;thatis,theplacewheretranslation,migrancy,ambivalenceandthetransnationalarereconfigured(Bugeja2012,11–13;ViljoenandVanderMerwe2007,9).Thethresholdorliminalmayb
