Among the numerous heroes of Bosnian oral epic and overall South Slavic region, there is Tale Ličanin as most independent phenomenon - within world, but also outside it. He has long been recognized a čauš in wedding-themed songs, harlequin, an entertainer, completely carnivalesque hero, who violates postulates world with his appearance behavior. Still, it does not prevent him from entering ever...

Every year in Haiti and its diaspora, the Lenten Vodou festivals of Rara occur through Easter Sunday. In this article, I argue that religious performances, such as Rara, are critical sites Black women's social economic empowerment. particular, women performers or queens use to empower themselves. Based on long-term ethnographic research Haiti, attend way transform play expression into labor wha...

CARNIVAL VS. LENT: THE CARNIVALIZATION OF FAMILY IMAGE IN GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S DEATH AND FUNERAL MAMMA GRANDE ONE HUNDRED YEARS SOLITUDE This article presents a socio-critical analysis of the family image in two works by Gabriel García Márquez: short story Death and Funeral Mamma Grande novel One Hundred Years Solitude. In literary cosmos Macondo, social microstructure that is at center aro...

Queer migrants seeking asylum in Europe face both heteronormative and homonormative assumptions about their subjectivity. Yet these are not simply adhered to for the sake of intelligibility. This article will explore how cultural production challenges heteronormativity homonormativity European immigration regimes On Bride’s Side (a 2014 documentary directed by Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry, Antonio...

Abstract This article examines the narrative and literary techniques employed in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ to draw on Omani women’s experiences of writing speaking as sources empowerment identity. Marking a shift from dominant realistic historical fiction often associated with male writers, Ḥamad experiments magical realism, carnivalesque, intertextuality, metafiction reconfigure novelisti...

Drawing on archival material from slaveholding families in North Carolina and the narratives of formerly enslaved State, John Kooner parades other Christmas festivities are employed this article as a lens to consider what meanings might have held for some members within State. Such celebrations were arguably used by enslavers demonstrate their good will benevolence allowing engage carnivalesque...