Non più e non ancora. Liminalità e Carnevale (sulle categorie di Victor W. Turner e Michail M. Bachtin)

Even if they come from experiences conducted on different terrains (Medieval and Renaissance European literature / the tribes of Southern Africa), Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner reached a very close vision of the social and cultural process. What Turner defines as liminality corresponds perfectly to what Bakhtin means with Carnival: analogous symbolic apparatuses, analogous processual and dialectical vision, a similar emphasis on the creativity of apparently disordered situations with respect to the established order, emphasis on the modalities of experience of a communitas made possible by ritual and feast, enhancement of the thresholds and borders as areas of reflection on one’s own identity values, in which an I and a You, an Ego and an Alter can be defined mutually and find each other in what Buber named the “essential Us”.