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The article aims to analyze the representation of space and migrancy in Beckett’s short fiction, particularly in relation to post-WWII contexts.

Space, migrancy, and liminality in Beckett’s Stories and Texts for Nothing

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This article analyzes space representation in Beckett’s work, exploring migrancy and liminality, suggesting deeper political implications.

The article aims to analyze the representation of space and migrancy in Beckett’s short fiction, particularly in relation to post-WWII contexts.
Conducts close reading of Beckett’s Stories and Texts for Nothing (1955)
Engages with literary border studies to frame the analysis
Examines characters as border beings navigating liminal spaces.
Argues that Beckett's prose presents a poetics of in-betweenness that challenges conventional notions of self and spatiality.
Identifies how characters subvert sovereign structures through border-crossing actions.
Highlights the political implications of unbelonging and the stakes of sovereignty in mid-century Europe.

Pouria Torkamaneh (2026) studied this question.

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This article analyzes space representation in Beckett’s work, exploring migrancy and liminality, suggesting deeper political implications.