Liminal being

1. Introduction: One of the many outcomes of globalization is the migration of individuals across boundaries in search of employment, opportunities and a sustainable quality of life. ‘Travel’ has become more accessible to the population on account of the diplomatic and political alliances which have removed the political barriers between nations. South Africa too has witnessed an influx of individuals from different nations, religions, cultures and ethnicity adding to the diversity of the…

East-West dynamic and portray abiding commonalities between both parties. Fanon explains that Veneuse is first a neurotic and coincidentally a black man. Sent away to boarding school since he was seven, Veneuse did not enjoy a secure feeling of being loved in early childhood. Fanon diagnoses that this phenomenon has nothing to do with race. Even “if this objective difference [in race] had not existed, [Veneuse] would have manufactured [his neurosis] out of nothing” . Similarly, Salih…

and crocodile as denizens of Egypt (Histories, Book 2.68-71) and they appear together in a ceiling panel of the Ramesseum (REF) as opponents of the pharaoh. Behemoth and Leviathan may merge literal and mythic interpretations and exist on the edge (“liminal”) somewhere between natural observable reality and supernatural realities. If so, they may represent the undefinable realms of chaos on both land (Behemoth) and sea (Leviathan). Behemoth is the plural form of behemah, a generic word for living…

father Suhu Subur died and he became the head of PGB organization. It was not sufficient that he was an experienced Silat teacher or an able manager. He had to prove that he understood the internal workings of the science. He describes going through a liminal period as he undertook to grasp Silat’s most esoteric aspects without a trainer to guide his…

“amazon” meaning a female warrior, it is the juxtaposition of womanhood and fighter that is similar to the beauty/danger problem, and could be seen as oxymoronic. So too, Judith is “framed in the doorway” the doorway as a liminal space that could symbolise the exterior and interior being breached for Berg and his paranoia that his is under attack. The use of an indirect question in free indirect discourse from Judith in “did he know where Mr Berg might be” is further evidence that this is…

Another interesting comparison is how the two will act when the other candidate is speaking. During Hilary answering of the first question, Trump is seen writing on the notepad, looking around and nodding at the audience, and generally fidgeting before giving his attention to Hilary. Not only is this distracting and disrespectful to his fellow candidate, but also is a citeational act of masculinity. In today’s gendered hierarchy, a lot of times increasing power through masculinity is at the…

Moran offer a lens into the challenges of fostering a singular Irish identity in a country at the centre of so many political, social, and cultural interactions; Irish identity, therefore, is produced by the individual from the lived experience of being Irish and resists reductive definitions and…

“I’ll never leave your side, my dear Clyde. I’ll ride till I die.” Bonnie Parker’s words, spoken in the 1967 film named after the infamous duo, are quite literal when studying the criminal couple genre. No matter how much they love each other, the road will always be the double-edged sword of freedom - at some point, the rest of the world will catch up with you. Starting with the film “You Only Live Once” (1937), through “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967), and continuing to this day, the romanticization…

Initiation occurs thrice within the novel; prostitution, the rooftop and the mountain. Prostitution in ‘Thirteen Cents’ in accordance with growth, teaches Azure to grow and become a man by first experiencing what it feels like to be a woman (being raped by Richard and two other men), “That’s why they did that to you. I know that you understand what it means to be a woman already. You bleed through the anus when you shit, don’t you?” (Duiker 88). In contrast, when Azure mentions Liezel’s way…

I travel the St. Louis-Boston air route on an almost weekly basis. At times Boston Transportation Security Administration (TSA) stops me. Every time I am being stopped, I end up exhausted, confused and even a bit shaky. As I get prepared to cross the TSA security checkpoint the rush starts. I tend to feel somehow naked. A sensation I believe might be shared with those who actually did strip naked to show TSA screeners that they were not carrying a bomb, as John Brennan did in 2012. Once all…