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Many readings of Nella Larsen's Passing have focused on Clare Kendry as a liminal figure who passes back and forth between the White life she chose and the Black life she longs to return to, posing a threat to Irene Redfield's security that she has worked so hard to achieve. Contrarily, I believe that, just as Irene Redfield and Passing's narrator are preoccupied by Clare's distracting beauty and dangerous life choices, so too have the many scholars who have focused on Clare as the singular liminal character in this novel. Irene remains in a liminal space in many aspects of her life, such as in her uncertain loyalties to and performances of her race and her indecipherable sexual orientation. She never truly crosses, or passes, into her own, but wavers back and forth between dual identities. Her fight to maintain her safety and security in a stable identity as a Black wife and mother is complicated by her subconscious understanding of herself as sharing Clare's precarious, in-between position. Given the fact of legal homophobia and racial segregation, it is not surprising that the narrative should present this liminal, in-between position as unsustainable. It is, therefore, fitting that Clare ends up dead on one side of a window, a common figure of liminal space, and Irene, after a fit of madness, alive on the other side and unsure of her guilt in the matter. The ending, ambiguous and liminal in itself, presents a situation where Larsen cannot not imagine an instance, even within this fictional setting, that would allow these women to remain in their liminal spaces within their segregated and homophobic society. In order to delve deeper into discussions of liminal identities, it is necessary to first establish a definition of liminality. A liminal space is one that is neither here nor there, but rather
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تاریخ انتشار 2016