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| omnipoetics:turner [2025/04/02 21:49] – [Liminality and Communitas] audriana | omnipoetics:turner [2025/04/02 21:50] (current) – [Liminality and Communitas] audriana |
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| ====== Liminality and Communitas ====== | ====== Liminality and Communitas ====== |
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| Since ethnopoetics resides in a liminal, or threshold space, ethnopoetic works act as “destabalizing agent... subverting established social constructs” and allow for “a space where humans may escape the socializing processes of performance and existence that is demanded in spaces that dictate social aggrandizement” (Bierdz, Tereszewski 346). As a result of the liminality deeply imbedded in ethnopoetics, one major focus is //communitas//, a shared landscape with “commonalities and a sense of belonging between people who are in liminal spaces (Fisher et. al. 254). This concept involves breaking down boundaries between cultures and dominant cultural narratives to seek intersectionality and new translations of cultural meaning. According to Turner, the //communitas// present in ethnopoetics serves to "make new models from the outpoured cultures of all people—particularly formerly oppressed or colonized kinds of people” (341-342). Within this framework, pieces such as M. NourbeSe Philip's [[omnipoetics:zong|ZONG!]] might be seen as an ethnopoetic work, utilizing both literal and metaphorical space to look at a cultural narrative of oppression through an outside perspective. | Since ethnopoetics resides in a liminal, or threshold space, ethnopoetic works act as “destabalizing agent... subverting established social constructs” and allow for “a space where humans may escape the socializing processes of performance and existence that is demanded in spaces that dictate social aggrandizement” (Bierdz, Tereszewski 346). As a result of the liminality deeply imbedded in ethnopoetics, one major focus is //communitas//, a shared landscape with “commonalities and a sense of belonging between people who are in liminal spaces (Fisher et. al. 254). This concept involves breaking down boundaries between cultures and dominant cultural narratives to seek intersectionality and new translations of cultural meaning. According to Turner, the //communitas// present in ethnopoetics serves to "make new models from the outpoured cultures of all people—particularly formerly oppressed or colonized kinds of people” (341-342). Within this framework, pieces such as M. NourbeSe Philip's [[omnipoetics:zong|ZONG!]] may be seen as ethnopoetic works, utilizing both literal and metaphorical space to look at a cultural narrative of oppression through an outside perspective. |
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| ====== Performative Nature ====== | ====== Performative Nature ====== |
