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Border figures of the fantastic
Patricia García
between life stages, or between life and non-life (at the borders constituted by birth and death) are often marked by topographical border crossings. (Schimanski, 2006 : 47) The fantastic gives voice to plenty of border-crossers who transition from dead to undead and vice versa, or from childhood into puberty, exemplified by Carrie's first menstruation in Stephen King's eponymous novel (1974) and clearly captured in its film adaptation by Brian De Palma ( 1976 ), in the symbolic