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	Crossing Liminal Spaces: The Journey to Freedom in A Song of the Sad Coffee Shop
	Tsai, Hsiu-chih
通讯作者	Tsai, HC
来源期刊	WENSHAN REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE
ISSN	2077-1282
EISSN	2077-1290
出版年	2009
卷号	2 期号:2 页码:1-38
英文摘要	Madagascar, in Shao-ling Chu's A Song of the Sad Coffee Shop (1996), is the symbol of freedom for the young, divorced protagonist Mathi. Working in the highly modernized Taipei city, Mathi believes the city's visible and invisible confinements result in her lethargy and aimlessness in life. In Mathi's daydreaming, Madagascar becomes Taiwan's counterpart, its enlarged self and its lost conscience. She finally sets out in quest of freedom in the desert of Madagascar where she believes the ultimate symbolic sign of self-identity and the idealistic concept of freedom in life converge. In this paper, I would like to examine firstly the close semiotic connection and signification between the sign of freedom and the signification of the geographical and economic situations of Madagascar as Taiwan's "reflection of the mirror," and secondly I would address Mathi's detour in Taiwan and her quest for freedom in Madagascar as experiences of crossing liminal spaces (Gennep, Turner) that prepare and initiate her to a broader sense of inter-subjective relationship. After passing this liminal phase, Mathi at last approaches the resolution to her traumatic puzzlement in life through her final realization of nature's extreme "non-interference" delineated in the intermittent episodes of liminal spaces as significant semiotic sign process of social, cultural and special crossings in A Song of the Sad Coffee Shop's textual narrative.
英文关键词	semiotic connection liminal spaces identity freedom Madagascar A Song of the Sad Coffee Shop Arnold van Gennep Victor W. Turner
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000437481800001
WOS类目	Literature
WOS研究方向	Literature
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/329347
作者单位	[Tsai, Hsiu-chih] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Foreign Languages & Literature, Taipei, Taiwan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tsai, Hsiu-chih. Crossing Liminal Spaces: The Journey to Freedom in A Song of the Sad Coffee Shop[J],2009,2(2):1-38.
APA	Tsai, Hsiu-chih.(2009).Crossing Liminal Spaces: The Journey to Freedom in A Song of the Sad Coffee Shop.WENSHAN REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE,2(2),1-38.
MLA	Tsai, Hsiu-chih."Crossing Liminal Spaces: The Journey to Freedom in A Song of the Sad Coffee Shop".WENSHAN REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE 2.2(2009):1-38.

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