Both fiction and urban space operate through the making and crossing of frontiers

Evidence

This useful linking of space and stories reminds us that both phenomena depend on the establishment and transgression of frontiers; fiction depends on characters straining against or being able to overcome barriers to their progress, just as frontiers exist to impede, at least temporarily, movements in space. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 271

Categorization

• XREF: A transferable analytical tool: frontier-establishment and transgression as the shared grammar of narrative and spatial power — bearing directly on how border-crossing characters in Naqvi and Hamid generate their plots.