Essays about: "Eilís Ní Dhuibhne s The Dancers Dancing"

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  1. 1. Aspects of Liminality in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Ann-Jeanett Stål; [2004]
    Keywords : Eilis Ni Dhuibhne; The Dancers Dancing; Liminality; Victor Turner; Irish Dance; dance; Rite of Passage; Kristeva; chora;

    Abstract : In this essay I refer Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s narrative construction of the main characters and the theme of the novel The Dancers Dancing, in the context of the anthropologist Victor Turner’s concept of liminality. Thus the summer in the Gaeltacht that five teenage girls experience, can be understood as a depiction of the liminal phase in a rite of passage. READ MORE