and her intimate journey to reconcile with her identity, while her fictional novel magnifies her fears and identity conflicts. Taking in consideration the narrative chronology, analyzing the main similarities and applying the concepts of social liminality and cultural negotiation identity construction of undocumented immigrants, the diversity and complexities of identity is…
Baghdad Clock” by Cristina Fernández Cubas fantastic. One element that is found throughout the story is the element of liminality. Liminality can be defined as “the state of being at the boundary of an important social category, in the process of crossing or transcending it, at a threshold between one state and another” (Kerman 178). Cristina Fernandez Cubas includes liminality in the lives of her characters, which creates the theme of unpleasant change. She shows us that the lines that separate…
separation, the individual detaches from a prior social state. The term separation connotes that there is something from which the individual is separating either from outside of him or something that defines ‘who he is’. The second phase is the state of liminality (betwixt and…
The novel, Frankenstein, was born out of what Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley described as a “waking dream”, one she had while falling asleep. Under the induced hallucinations of the hypnagogic state, she envisioned a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. In her classic 1823 novel, Shelley writes about Victor Frankenstein, a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University…
Liminality is the actual transition and reincorporation is when the individual emerges with a new status and identity. The ritual of Amrit Sanchar meets all of these stages that form a rite of passage. The first stage known as separation can be found in Amrit…
October I will conduct a literature review on Mexico-U.S. and U.S. immigration laws. To better approach my research in November I will direct my literature review on the best approaches to study nonfictional works and expand on my literature review of liminality. I will dedicate the mouth of December to organize my literature reviews and reframe my…
In “Thrones of their Own” by Roberts addresses the precarious liminal state in which black women exist and must learn to navigate. Roberts describes the white degradation of styles that were considered “too black,” as well as the white criticism of black women “attempting to be white through the use of consumer goods,” (151) as exemplified by Mamie Garvin Fields who was reprimanded by her employer for making herself a dress similar to those that she made for white women, because it threatened…
Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande through their subjective narratives emphasize the important contributions that migration played about their family relations and the development of their personal identity. Both authors touch upon similar themes relating to transnationalism and liminal identities, however they greatly differentiate when discussing the factor of citizenship and mobility. Cisneros is born in the U.S. while Reyna Grande is born in Mexico and later migrates to the U.S. as an…
Homer’s The Odyssey is a Greek epic poem that follows the travels of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, on his return trip from the Trojan War. Odysseus and his continually shrinking company of men face a sea voyage that should take weeks to complete. They quickly realize, however, the submissive nature of human-beings, as the Gods, half-gods, and other mythical beings, routinely hamper them, forcing a distraction from the ultimate goal. Notable instances of this hampering include: the Island of the…
she lived. Immigration was a rite of passage process to Yinyi, “a rite which accompanied every change of place, state, social position and age.” (Turner, 1969: 94 ) Her experience as a Chinese immigrant demonstrates Turner’s concept of separation, liminality, and aggregation in the ritual process. Starting from the moment in the airplane, Yinyi entered the phase of separation: she lost her identity as a citizen, the social circle she established with her friends and the properties such as…