From domain interaction to liminal identity:A reconsideration of metaphtonymies in Elizabeth Bishop's travel poems about Brazil
LIANG Zunian
WANG Xiteng
Abstract：The Brazilian travel poems constitute a significant component of American modern poet Elizabeth Bishop's poetic corpus.Guided by Victor Turner's liminality theory,this study selects three Brazilian travel poems:Arrive at Santos,Manuelzinho,and Crusoe in England,according to their creative sequence to analyze the implicit metonymic interactions therein.The implicit metonymies in these poems not only reflect Bishop's personal spiritual journey through the tripartite liminal process,but also embody her rethinking on the external colonialism of the"first world"and the internal colonialism within Brazil.From examining Brazil with the haughty stance of the"first world"upon her initial arrival to exposing the harms of colonial activities to the"third world"before her departure,Bishop's attitudinal shift exemplifies the liminality and conflict of individual identity amid collisions of diverse cultural backgrounds.Thus,interpreting Bishop's Brazilian travel poems from the dimension of implicit metonymy helps broaden the integrated research path of cognitive linguistics and literature,while also expanding the perspective for postcolonial literary interpretation.
Keywords：Elizabeth Bishoptravel poemsmetaphtonymyliminalitypostcolonial criticism
Publication Date：2025-07-15
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-19(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 69-76 )