Liminal being

The first two decades of the twentieth century was known as “The progressive era” which was was a time of rapid economic and industrial growth. The progressive era was defined as “a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in American social and political life” (544). Progressives mostly consist of middle class men and women, who “believe” that the government should support the people for the people. To President Roosevelt,…

Liminality is a large part of the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Being liminal means “to exist equally in two worlds or states or to exist on both sides of a boundary.” In this case Duke and his attorney are both liminal because they are in the ‘real world’ of Las Vegas interacting with all those different people, but they are also in their drug induced hallucinatory world. An example is when…

Alain Locke, in his “Foreword” to The New Negro (1925), observes, “America seeking a new spiritual expansion and artistic maturity, trying to found an American literature, a national art, and national music implies a Negro-American culture seeking the same satisfactions and objections” (xvi). Within this statement, he underscores the complex relationships that exist within national literary space, such as the one between “American literature” and “Negro-American culture,” where the latter has to…

perceived to be constantly loose, flexible, confusing, ambiguous, and reproducible. Asia was considered synonymous with the image of an authoritarian culture lacking in emotional connection, cold, impersonal, and machine-like. Japanese was embodied in liminal quality with not even considered greater than that of robots, but equated with…

her man. Besides, Chandrika points out that the cat (the mother symbol) is called chakki in Malayalam, derived from Sanskrit word shakti. In Shakti doctrine, Prakriti is held superior to Purusha, yet “Rao makes Govindan Nair, the Purusha, a superior being while Prakriti, Shantha, is placed on an obviously lower scale”. (Chandrika: 83) Thus, she finds objection against Raja Rao’s quiver male adjustment of a Hindu religio-philosophical…

analyzing literature. When there is a growing number on transnational literature scarcely research focus on the liminal identities whose experiences are not encapsulated by…

the afterlife. The ba, or animation, is an element of the soul. The ba is the part of the spirit that is free to leave the tomb and travel about the earth during the day, but must return to the tomb during the perilous night. The ba comes into being when the ka and the dead body are united in the afterlife. This cycle relates to Turners idea of rebirth and reincarnation. The spirit of the deceased is believed to travel on a journey to the afterlife and the burial preparations assure the…

Over the years, Trump has developed a record of being sexist towards women. He oppresses women by making vulgar comments and calling them names like “disgusting” and “unattractive.” The reason for Trump’s behavior is uncalled for and is very unethical, but nobody can understand where his hatred and anger towards women originated from. According to the article “Self” by Nina Bahadur, who is also the author of the book “Every Single One”, and a writer and editor based in New York City, she…

This essay will introduce the themes of feminist approaches within performance art, in relation to the female body. Focusing in on the feminist approaches such as: violence against the female body that is used in cinema and film. Discussing the way of displaying the violence and how that challenges the female body, in order to create a memorable performance or cinematic film. These specific themes will link to the artist Ana Mendieta, through examining her works ‘Rape Scene’ and ‘Death of a…

22-3). Twilight is the stage of evening in between daylight and night. Unterach comes from an Austro-Bavarian word meaning “between waters,” which geographically describes the village. This is where Bernhard’s nameless narrator wants to be, in a liminal place where he has no definition. He sends the servants home and closes the shutters, trying to escape anything with meaning to which he could compare himself to. Then one day, he finds a cap on the ground. “A cap with a brim such as the butchers…