The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading

Abstract

Lefebvre opens the way to a trialectics of spatiality, always insisting that each mode of thinking about space, each “field” of human spatiality—the physical, the mental, the social—be seen as simultaneously real and imagined, concrete and abstract, material and metaphorical.