Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminalityidentity situated at a threshold neither one thing nor another but simultaneously both and neithercaused by encounters with otherness while negotiating identity in contemporary Spain. Examining how identity and alterity are parleyed through the cultural concerns of historical memory gender roles sex religion nationalism and immigration this study demonstrates how fictional representations of reality converge in a common structure wherein the end is not the end but rather an edge a liminal ground. On the border between two identities the end materializes as an ephemeral limit that delineates and differentiates yet also adjoins and approximates.