In her article \u22Tangier and Kerouac\u27s Oriental Experience in Liminality\u22 Peggy Pacini discusses Kerouac\u27s production derived from his Tangerian experience. Since the Tangier narratives have no existence of their own in the Duluoz Legend and are included in larger volumes about traveling and passing through, Pacini examines how this production cohered within the entire Legend and the terminology and world vision Kerouac had already fashioned. Focusing on two texts, \u22Big Trip to Europe\u22 and \u22Passing through Tangiers, France and London,\u22 Pacini considers Kerouac\u27s and his alter ego Duluoz\u27s visions of Tangier and their journey to Tangier as many thresholds or liminal moments that eventually culminate in another rite of passage in their Beat experience. Within the framework of the Legend and of Kerouac\u27s cosmology and imagery, Pacini addresses what has been overlooked in Kerouac\u27s Tangier experience and how his encounter with the city is translated in his narratives. She examines several passing through experiences as described in Kerouac\u27s and Duluoz\u27s journeys to Tangier as revelations concerning their art and vision of the world while measuring them against a sense of lost innocence and the imperative to get along in their spiritual, artistic, and traveling quests.
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