Empathy, Liminality, and Narrative Imagination
Rabindranath Tagore's ‘The Living and the Dead’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11016038 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lalita Pandit Hogan (0009-0008-4162-1176, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-96 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0085-6401 • E-ISSN: 1479-0270 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00856401.2011.648906 |
| OpenAlex | W2091383246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay focuses on the motif of symbolic death in Rabindranath Tagore's‘The Living and the Dead’ to explore how social injustices occur when empathy for an individual (or a group) is blocked. Arnold Van Gennep's notion of pre-liminal, liminal and post-liminal rites of passage that situate humans in efficacious, productive social relations, is used to contextualise the liminality motif in appropriate theoretical terms, while the introductory and ending references to Martha Nussbaum's idea that literary texts serve to unblock empathy (for the reader), by making invisible pain and suffering visible, draw attention to Tagore's contribution to this kind of humanising literature, and his relevance as an important literary figure in today's world
Aesthetics · Art · Empathy · Liminality · Literature · Motif (music · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |