Digging the Liminal Spaces
Chronotopic Representation of Liminality in Seamus Heaney’s North and Station Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21533898 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maryam Soltan Beyad (University of Tehran Tehran , Iran (Islamic Republic of), corresponding author), Ehsan Kazemi (0000-0002-1780-1846, University of Tehran Tehran , Iran (Islamic Republic of)) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 138 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-79 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0340-5222 • E-ISSN: 1865-8938 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ang-2020-0003 |
| OpenAlex | W3011833977 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Challenging the established poetic idea of Ireland as a unified whole, new Irish poetry encourages a perspective toward homeland alongside with a corresponding revision of Irish subjectivity as liminality. Introduced by Homi Bhabha as a postcolonial cultural term, the idea privileges hybrid cultures and challenges solid or authentic ones. Moreover, this liminal rationale entails a corresponding chronotopic rendition, as Bakhtin intends to theorize it, whereby the notion of spatio-temporality assists the poet in rethinking the Irish identity. An archeologist shrouded as a poet, Heaney’s early work, North (1975), is an attempt to reterritorialize the Motherland while Station Island (1984) represents the deterritorialization of the land, a collection in which Heaney proposes an alternative notion of Irish identity. The present study seeks to show how Heaney’s aforementioned poetry collections manifest a transition from a patently nationalist reception of land to a tendency to liminal spaces. Hence, a critical juxtaposition of these two works bears witness to an endeavor to move beyond the solid, reductionist perspective of the unified Ireland into a state of liminality with respect to Bhabha’s idea of hybridity. Furthermore, it is argued how Bakhtin’s idea of chronotope can accommodate to the accomplishment of such a poetic project
Aesthetics · Art · Elegy · Epistemology · Homeland · Hybridity · Irish · Liminality · Linguistics · Literature · Nationalism · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |