Mawuena Logan, in her article "Postcoloniality and Resistance in Earl Lovelace's "The Wine of Astonishment" and "The Dragon Can't Dance"" refers to Frantz Fanon, who describes "the postcolonial subject" as being in a "zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity, but – where an authentic upheaval can be born - a liminal space". Performing one's way out of this liminal space and transforming identity into an "aggregated or consummated" form is a complex process that requires time, but the reward is true freedom.