Aninnya Sarkar

Amity University | AU · Amity School of Foreign Languages

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Derived from the Latin term “limen”, which means threshold, the term ‘liminality’ was first traced in the Dutch, German and French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep’s book Le Rites de Passage. Van Gennep examines the ceremonies occupying an individual’s “life crises” into three major distinctions rites of separation, transition and the rites of incorp...

Itanagar-based author Mamang Dai attempts to highlight the cultural liminal consciousness of her motherland, which is situated in a conflicting zone between Tibet and India. The state commonly known as 'The Land of the Dawn Lit Mountains' is a hub of twenty-six indigenous tribes and one hundred and ten sub-clans, who are sustaining their lives base...

Critic Bjorn Thomassen in his book Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between states that liminality emerges in-between of a passage. In the television serial Balika Vadhu: Kacchi Umar K Pakke Rishte, telecasted on Colors TV, a clear picture of cultural liminality is highlighted with the constant shift in the setting of the plot, and...

Virginia Woolf in her essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ wrote “A woman must have a room and money of her own if she is to write a fiction”. (Woolf 1) Although Woolf wrote the essay, for the 19th century women of United Kingdom or European countries, who are subjugated and denied a creative space of their choice, but Woolf’s statement can be very well com...

Whether it is the pre-colonial, colonial, or post-colonial era, the problems of the indigenous tribal women of NorthEast India have not changed much. The same scenario is reflected in Mamang Dai"s Legends of Pensam as the women on margin have always retained in the same shape and misery. The gendered subalterns have been suffering in silence accept...

Mahesh DattanisBravely Fought the Queen elucidates the defaulted picture of the Indian society, where the characters face a tremendous existential crisis. The women are badly dependent on the men characters for their survival, whereas the male characters are badly dependent on the patriarchal system for proving their dominant existence in the socie...