Background Research on children's play asserts that identities are performed and (re)formed in peer groups where they try out make sense of their social worlds. Yet there kinds (e.g., violence, gore, sexuality, consumer culture) often hidden taken underground, deemed inappropriate for public spaces. These underground spaces potentially revolutionary (#playrevolution) as children disrupt power h...

Festival decorations are crucial indicators of the carnivalesque atmosphere events as they capture celebratory experiences in tangible forms. Due to strong presence rainbow colors, LGBT+ Pride provide fertile grounds for discussion decorative materials. While acclaimed symbol is an expression community and their campaign equality, color combination contested due commercializing appropriating fo...

The films of Edgar Pêra are, more often than not, characterized as marginal in the Portuguese context. Responsible for a hundred projects different media (Cinema, Television, Comics and Transmedia) three decades, has been active working on several that, certain way, make him “an artist who cannot be defined by way facile comparisons generalisations, explained through simple similes, boxed into ...

The carnivalesque poetics of the “rogue lyrics” (qalandariyyāt) medieval Sufi poetry have excited interest varied audiences since premodern times. This attention is not surprising: these poems' purported celebration proscribed actions, antinomian figures, and even apostasy shocks readers demands interpretation. Many interpreters, followed by a substantial group contemporary scholars, read image...

The paper aims to evaluate the sociocultural and literary potential of age-old popular Odia oral literature, which includes folk songs, lullabies rhymes, are variously known as Nanabaya geetas. There songs like Chakulia Panda gita, Kendara Halua Gita, Janughantia Kelakeluni professionally sung by people on different occasions. Also, it a critical discussion stories poetic plays in light their p...

This article analyses the digital literary criticism, which got rid of obsession academic Babylon in field criticism 1980s and revealed a more diverse voice, inspiring endless possibilities variation transformative stage criticism. The advent Internet has created participatory for platform to weaken distinction between identity power. Equality disrupts validity authority structure knowledge cir...

In light of the Bakhtinian heteroglossia and authorial hybrid construction, the present study sets out to argue how the assimilation of alien stylistics into the realm of social and ideological discourse may transcend the limits of the centralizing logos prevalent in the orthodox poetics. In so doing, first, an analysis of the Bakhtinian concepts is provided to renegotiate his argument on the a...

The naked body is a complex phenomenon, combining variety of functions. Nudity can be symbols threat/insecurity, aggression/victim, freedom/slavery. Teatro Oficina, located in the São Paulo suburbs, offers us unique example nudity for construction national identity. Based on Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade's "Anthropophagic Manifesto," theatre founders made and anthropophagy their theatrical c...