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Title DYNAMICS OF TRIBALIST UN/BELONGING: AN ANALYSIS OF LIMINALITY IN JAMIL AHMAD’S THE WANDERING FALCON

Author(s) Sameera Jabeen

Abstract Jamil Ahmed’s The Wandering Falcon is set in “the broken hills where the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet.” Keeping in view the border-zone, the focus of the research is to expound the feelings of possessions of the community residing in Baluchi-Irani border. In the above-mentioned context, the current study explores the “in-betweeness” and the vivid picture of externality and internality in the afore-mentioned text in the light of Victor Turner’s theory of liminality. Elucidating the idea of Arnold van Gennep, Turner’s theory throws light on the transition of initiation in simpler societies. As Turner writes, “Rites de Passage are found in all societies but tend to reach their maximal expressions in small scale, relatively stable and cyclical societies.” Turner draws attention to Van Gennep's ideas but solely focuses on the transitional or liminal. Spatial and worldly measurements can be associated to liminality. This concept can be applied to subjects having different nature of matter, entire social order potentially the entire civic establishments. In the current study, adopting textual analysis as a research method, the meaning of Turner’s concept of liminality has been limited to tangible scenario of small-scale tribal societies. But, here, liminality as a method for reformation has been applied. The investigation of my research is likely to come to a major finding that “liminality” serves as a signifier to manage the dynamics in a culture. In spite of power and social standards, “liminality” demonstrates the development of the “other.” This study is likely to be significant in terms of production of knowledge in the field of cultural studies in the liminal zones.

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Publication Date 2019-10-04

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