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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... deploys the idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) in contrast to the exploration of polygamy in Nigerian-American dramatist Tess Onwueme’s early play The Reign of Wazobia (1988) , written a year after Chinua Achebe’s novel. As a third generation African writer, and one whose...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
....” A similar point is made by Flanagan ( 2011 ). 5 Rishoi ( 2003 ) views Coming of Age as a contemporary “slave narrative” for its use of personal narrative to expose the continuing institutional oppression of African Americans in the twentieth century. I do not disagree that Rishoi has identified...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Erica L. Johnson Abstract In this article I argue that Cliff's portrait of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant participates in a genre of subaltern historiography that I term “ghostwriting.” Cliff was inspired to write...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
...@ucr.edu Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 Toni Morrison African American narrative A Mercy women Toni Morrison’s novel, A Mercy (2008), is a historical narrative of national becoming, set amidst the rich and wild landscape of America at the end of the seventeenth century. Its...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 94–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
... , edited by Peiss Kathy and Simmons Christina . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Rogers Kim Lacy . 2006 . Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Ross Loretta J...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 50–77.
Published: 01 September 2014
... among African American cultural producers and interrogate how these works constitute resistance narratives through their mobilization ofTubman's iconic status as a self- and communal liberator. I further consider the place for these cultural works in the larger context of American national narratives...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 March 2018
... percent) of African American women will seek treatment for mental health (Beauboeuf-Lafontant 2007). The fear of seeking mental health assistance adds a layer of shame and invisibility that leaves Black women without a safe place to land, take off their capes and masks, and just "be." In addition...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
..." later in the text, hissing its new meaning at readers and dramatizing its dissatisfaction with the "original" narrative and the Westerner's insistence on "seeing" according to problematic standards. Wall's description of "African American oral forms, such as folktales, sermons, spirituals, and blues...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Marissa . 2008 . Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times . Athens : Ohio University Press . Mullings Leith . 2000 . “ African-American Women Making Themselves: Notes on the Role of Black Feminist Research .” Souls 2 , no. 4 : 18...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and highlight the ways in which the Barbadian-American writer claims kinship with various African diasporic communities. Marshall's memoir represents the triangle as a symbol of the African diasporic/ transnational individual, and such formations abound when one examines her work. In keeping with Marshall's...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 205–217.
Published: 01 December 2016
... College. doi: 10.2979/meridians.15.r.n 205 What bell Taught Me (activism-starting at the place where you stand) Several researchers have demonstrated that African American women (Carrington 2006) and other Black women in the African Diaspora (Edge 2013; Wafula and Snipes 2014) have been understudied...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of A Voicferom theSouth(1892), the first book-length African American feminist text written during a period when women, newly empowered by social and technological, found themselves having to negotiate with the nationalistic paradigms that were also emerging at the time. Cooper's strategy incorporated what Glass...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for Genetics & Society; California Latinas for Reproductive Justice; National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF); African American Women for Reproductive Freedom; California Black Women’s Health Project; Black Women’s Health Imperative (formerly...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... to terms with myself as a rising middle-class, American woman of African descent. I found myself positioned in ways that fostered feelings of displacement, discomfort, and unease-of not being at home. This experience led me to consider why the desire for a sense of community was a salient (although...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 491–506.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to include a fuller accounting for African-American/Afro-Caribbean relations (Ropero, 40). 6 Through her descriptions of place, Marshall foreshadows the themes ofintra-racial interethnic conflict that the narrative will explore more deeply in its portrayal of what sociologist Juan Flores has described...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 September 2005
... at Duquesne University, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century African American and American literature. Glass received her Ph.D. in Literature from U.C. San Diego in June 2004. She is currently nearing the completion of her book-length manuscript "Courting Communities: Black Female Nationalism...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 171–203.
Published: 01 March 2003
... rainbowwasenuf(1975), that featured over twenty prominent African American scholars, political commentators, and activists, including Robert Staples (who wrote an essay in a prior issue to which everyone responded) (1979a), Alvin Poussaint (1979), Julianne Malveaux (1979), [Meridians:feminismra,ce...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
... African American women were actively involved in the birth control movement in the early part of the twentieth century (Ross 1992).College-educated, middle-class African American women were actively involved in their communities with the sole purpose of racial uplift. They felt that it was their duty...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 218–242.
Published: 01 December 2016
..." (Champion 2003, 21-2). According to Champion, parallelism is not merely a language function from Western rhetorical traditions, but also a feature of African American oral tradition that has been passed on from generation to generation and can be seen in the following forms of narrative sequencing: toasts...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 93–116.
Published: 01 March 2006
... ofrepresentations of the self, the social, and the political? (Boldrini and Davies 2004, v). My response to both questions is in the affirmative because, as African literatures become more and more institutionalized in the American and European curricula, we need to reexamine the conventional ways we read...
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