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Functions Of Liminality In Literature: A Study Of Georges Bataille's "Le Bleu Du Ciel", Julien Green's "L'Autre", And Assia Djebar's "L'Amour, La Fantasia"., Malynda Strother Taylor
Functions Of Liminality In Literature: A Study Of Georges Bataille's "Le Bleu Du Ciel", Julien Green's "L'Autre", And Assia Djebar's "L'Amour, La Fantasia"., Malynda Strother Taylor
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The term "liminality" originated in the work of two socioanthropologists, Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner; it is descriptive of the middle phase in a rite of passage. Whereas the "betwixt and between" transitional pattern is temporary in tribal societies, it often becomes a way of life in the twentieth century. Although their projects differ greatly, Victor Turner's and Jacques Derrida's mutual interest in border spaces brings them both into this discussion. Some of the same phenomena described by the sociological term, liminality, is discussed philosophically as "undecidability" and "aporia." Liminality functions to link and to investigate three disparate twentieth-century …
American Medusa, American Sphinx: The Female Gaze And Knowledge In Modern Fiction And Film., Janet Clare Wondra
American Medusa, American Sphinx: The Female Gaze And Knowledge In Modern Fiction And Film., Janet Clare Wondra
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Two major arguments define this study, the first being that the gaze, a concept borrowed from film theory, provides a productive approach to many literary texts, whether central to the canon, like The Sound and the Fury and The Great Gatsby, or relatively new to critical attention, like Nella Larsen's Passing. Locating and following the gaze enables literary critics to bring into focus the power relations within narratives and the scopic negotiations by which hierarchies of privilege are established and maintained. Second, the study both argues and demonstrates that feminist film theory has prematurely closed important avenues of investigation by …
The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns Of 1970 And The Changing Politics Of Race., Donald Randy Sanders
The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns Of 1970 And The Changing Politics Of Race., Donald Randy Sanders
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In 1970 four young racially moderate Democrats won the governor's chairs of Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina and Georgia. These southern gubernatorial elections and the subsequent inaugural speeches signaled a transformation of racial politics in the region. As the campaigns began, however, persistent ambivalence concerning the pace of integration and court-ordered busing of school children to achieve racial balances tempted many politicians to exploit these concerns. Their efforts failed; southerners had decided to obey the law. The successful candidates understood that the electorate had come to this decision with varying degrees of enthusiasm and that their campaigns must reflect this ambivalence; …