Browsing by Subject "Liminality"
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Item Ashtimki as the Site for the Performance of Tharu Identity(Faculty of English, 2021) Kushmi, AngelThis research explores how Ashtimkifestival has become a site for the performance of Tharu identity in their one of the biggest festivals—Ashtimki. This research exposes the conception of liminality, a state of transformation of identity, and employs identity construction and reconstruction of people while celebrating this festival. The co-construction is done in the interaction between an individual identity and their group-identity. By taking theoretical insights on performance theories proposed mainly by Richard Schechner and Victor Turner's concept of liminality, and Catherine Bell's concept of ritual and practice, this research unfolds that the Tharu people go through the process of identity construction, transformation, in-between-ness, reconstruction, and fluidness between identities that co-exist in a person during Ashtimki celebration.Item Body resistance and rites of transformation in Toni morrison's God help the child and beloved(Department of English, 2023) Nath, ArjunThis research work explores representations of the African-American people's struggle and their ideological transformation manifested in their bodily experiences in a racist-claustrophobic American society. The bodily transformation of African-Americans liberates themselves through a bodily resistance to unravel their independent self. Morrison’s protagonists become enlightened and experienced individuals in a similar way where they go through separation, liminality, and reintegration during rituals. Central characters in Morrison's God Help the Child (2015) and Beloved (1987) present the rites of transformation of black body. They preserve their dignity and identity in a new communitas creating their own agency and solidarity after going through liminality, a rite of political transformation of self into agency to resist against the social injustice. Communitas is a well defined social space in equilibrium, comparatively having no injustice, segregation and disorder where one’s identity is restored through a bodily and psychic liberation passing through a liminal phase. Morrison's God Help the Child and Beloved depict the characters, Bride and Sethe, through rituals of bodily transformation as a site of resistance along with severe corporeal repression and being reintegrated into a new communitas. Keywords: Body, Rites of transformation, Liminality, Communitas, Resistance, Agency, Identity