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Liminality; a term used across multiple disciplines including anthropology, sociology, literature, and translation studies, to describe the state of ambiguity, uncertainty, and in-betweenness experienced by individuals, groups, or societies during transitions from one condition or social position to another.【1】 The concept originates from the work of French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep, Rites de Passage, and was expanded by British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner; it represents an unstab

Parody, also known as mimicry, refers to the creation of a humorous, satirical, or critical effect by preserving the formal characteristics of a work or cultural production while altering its content, meaning, or context. Parody imitates a text, style, genre, discourse, or cultural practice; however, this imitation is constructed through a deliberate distance that highlights the difference between the imitation and the original. In this sense, parody is not a simple copy of the targeted text but