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@inbook{1399120, author = {Horáková, Martina}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, booktitle = {In-Between : Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b11899}, editor = {Stefan L. Brandt}, keywords = {liminality; Madeleine Thien; Simple Recipes}, howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"}, language = {eng}, location = {Frankfurt am Main}, isbn = {978-3-631-73569-5}, pages = {187-197}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, title = {The Melancholy of Urban Childhood : Liminality in Madeleine Thien’s Simple Recipes}, year = {2017} }
TY - CHAP ID - 1399120 AU - Horáková, Martina PY - 2017 TI - The Melancholy of Urban Childhood : Liminality in Madeleine Thien’s Simple Recipes VL - Canadiana PB - Peter Lang CY - Frankfurt am Main SN - 9783631735695 KW - liminality KW - Madeleine Thien KW - Simple Recipes N2 - This article provides a close reading of Canadian author Madeleine Thien’s collection of short stories Simple Recipes (2001) in order to explore how the concept of liminality can be used to articulate Thien’s characters’ sense of (un)belonging, their identity negotiation and their experiences of transitions. Liminality, in the broader sense of a threshold moment, the period or place in-between, is analyzed from two perspectives: the first is temporal and relates to Thien’s elaborate anatomy of growing up, the transition from childhood to adulthood marked by a sense of loss, abandonment, and grief caused by mostly dysfunctional family relationships. The other kind of liminality relates to her depiction of liminal spaces, both in private and public settings of suburban Vancouver. The relationship between indoor and outdoor space is particularly intricate: while the domestic space is often a source of negative emotions which the young characters long to escape, the cityscape provides a seeming safety and a sense of belonging, particularly for the second generation of characters from immigrant families. Thus I argue that Thien’s stories, by interweaving these two kinds of liminality present specific aesthetics in which most characters find themselves in a transient, restless mode of living, lingering between childhood and adulthood, between indoor/domestic and outdoor/public spaces, and only rarely do they find closure or a resolution. The threshold moments and transitions, in spite of offering a temporary liberation, often lead to a state of melancholy experienced by the characters—a state marked by the difficulty, if not impossibility, to transcend loss, grief and mourning. ER -
HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. The Melancholy of Urban Childhood : Liminality in Madeleine Thien’s Simple Recipes. In Stefan L. Brandt. \textit{In-Between : Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture}. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017, s.~187-197. Canadiana. ISBN~978-3-631-73569-5. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b11899.
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