“Caught in Limbo” from Liminalinty into Alienation: Immigrant as depicted in Graphic Novel: “The Strange” by Jerome Ruiller

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Aswan University

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To be a prey to many wild aspects that paralyze one, a feeling of being ‘locked-in’ to an uncomfortable state via a set of structural and social barriers often perceived as insurmountable, are all aspects of liminality. This paper sheds the light on the liminal experience that leads into alienation in Jerume Ruiller’s The Strange. Ruiller introduces the protagonist of his graphic novel “The Strange” as one who was caught into the stage of liminality and could not move to the stage of Reincorporation. The author illustrates the difficulties of being "liminal", on the one hand, having a "in-between" condition that serves as a link between two different rules (old and new) is what it means to be a liminal. It also illustrates how ideology and the process of alienation may either reinforce one another or operate in opposition to one another. This is the stage of liminality where we caught in limbo, and it is the most dangerous one.

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