A Changeling in Disguise: Liminal Identity in Hugo Hamilton's Novel
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A preoccupation with a murky past informs Hugo Hamilton’s widely praised memoir _The Speckled People_ (2003). Hamilton’s 2008 novel Disguise—though far less celebrated—is likewise focused on a divided and mutable identity. Dr. Audrey Robitaillié points out that although the term “changeling” appears only once in the novel, the protean folk figure is in fact the cornerstone on which the narrative rests. For most of the novel, the protagonist Gregor Liedmann appears to move ceaselessly between different worlds and different possible identities. Building on the concepts of de- and re-territorialization theorized by Deleuze and Guattari, Robitaillié shows how liminality and in-betweeness becomes, for Gregor, a defining and glorified sign of personality: as the novel states, “biography is never a stationary thing, but something that constantly changes shape.” (from the editor's notes to the issue)
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