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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Mayumi Takada Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women . By Laura Hyun Yi Kang . Duke : Duke University Press , 2002 . x, 354 pp. Softcover, $22.95 . Copyright © 2005 by Smith College 2005 CompositionaSlubjectsE: n.fi.9urinA.s9ian/AmericaWnomen.By Laura Hyun...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Shireen M. Roshanravan Abstract Ethnic Studies and Asian American feminist scholars have investigated how the model-minority racial discourse functions to prevent cross-racial coalition and to cast doubt on Asian American women in their claims to Women of Color political identity. However, none...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Wendy Thompson Taiwo Abstract In this personal essay, the author analyzes what it means to be black and Asian American in a nation where racial capital determines social value and non-black immigrants are encouraged to uphold and abide by anti-black systems, policies, and practices. Narrating her...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 304–331.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of these antimilitarism campaigns for the study of transnational feminisms as well as Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. First, the protests of Mink and Native Hawaiian activists against U.S. militarism in the Pacific represented gendered critiques of U.S. empire, although in different ways. Second, Mink’s...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Pamela Butler; Jigna Desai Abstract Critical readings of “chick lit” are typically limited to a framework that understands the popular fiction genre as a sign or symptom of “postfeminism” in the U.S. In its readings of chick lit in general, and of South Asian American chick lit as a particular...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 163–197.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of organizing: direct service, civil rights, community organizing, and philanthropy. The interview offers a general outline of Saika's path as a postwar progressive who embraces her generation's challenge to build an ethnic movement that affirms Asian American identity and rights while it also advances a broad...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jennifer Cho Abstract Turning to extant theories of melancholy, this article uses Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée to reevaluate the linear trajectory of Asian American identity formation in the United States. In particular, the author develops the term mel- han -choly—a hybrid form of melancholy...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 36–61.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Jennifer Cho Abstract Drawing from theories of melancholy from David Eng, David Kazanjian, and Anne Anlin Cheng, I use Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée to reevaluate the accepted linear trajectory of Asian American identity formation in the U.S. In particular, I develop the term mel- han -choly...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Sreyoshi Sarkar Abstract Women living in the South Asian conflict zone of Kashmir have been represented by mainstream media and film as mainly victims of the Indian state power’s political and sexual violence, as protestors who are supporting their men’s insurgency in Kashmir, or as aligned...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book The Oriental Feminine and Racial Melancholia The Asian American female inhabits a position in the U.S. national unconscious that I will call the oriental feminine, a femininity produced by orientalism. Edward Said and others have noted that the "Orient" was produced...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 389–409.
Published: 01 December 2020
... documentary I use in my class is Deborah Gee’s Slaying the Dragon (1988). Produced by Asian Women United, the film was originally made in the late 1980s, but, if used with supplementary films and readings in Asian American Studies and feminist film theory, and with documentary and feature films as well...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 134–160.
Published: 01 September 2002
... home for me. It has brought home to me, and many other South Asian American women, the instability and power of the concept of nation, the ambiguity of cultural possession, and the perils involved in the material processes of"bringing back" a memory or fantasy of belonging. Traveling to the U.S...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Dra_go(n1988).Produced by Asian Women United, the film was originally made in the late 1980s, but, ifused with supplementary films and readings in Asian American Studies and feminist film theory, and with documentary and feature films as well as YouTubevideos, the film remains very effective...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
... women to the forefront of Asian American feminist studies. Similarly, Stetz and Oh's anthology LegacieosftheCorrifortWomeonf WorldWarII (2001) characterizes the comfort women issue in its full dimension. The recent upsurge in the comfort women movement, inaugurated through the public appearances...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in Sociology and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book, The ManagedHand: Race,Gender,and theBodyin BeautyServiceWork (University of California Press, 2010)examines service interactions between women in Asian-owned nail salons, and won the Sara Whaley book prize from...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 335–357.
Published: 01 October 2019
... College 2019 Native feminism Hawaiʻi Asian settler colonialism Haunani-Kay Trask The last decade has seen the rise of settler colonialism as an academic buzzword in interdisciplinary cultural studies areas including American studies, ethnic studies, and gender studies. Settler colonialism...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 358–371.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Nancy Kang Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 bullying self-esteem Asian American coming of age body consciousness In the junior high yearbook, there is an innocuous photo of an overweight Asian American girl running after an errant rubber ball. The balls are standard gym...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2004
... as within the genre of Asian American mother/daughter writing. "New" and "Wimmin's" Comix5 One of very few syndicated American female cartoonists, Lynda Barry is lauded for her signature storytelling and bold graphic style-what critic Bob Callahan deems her "brilliant narrative skills" (1991, 12-13...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., the journal's discursive project includes essays that examine identity implications of the Asian American "model minority" idea; the relationship of queerness and ethnic/class privilege in a popular if controversial novel set in Hawaii; how transnational identity in a Demetria Martinez novel complicates...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): v–xii.
Published: 01 March 2004
... objectify Asian American women in the construction of a non-Asian (and presumably male) modern subject. With reference to the late Edward Said's Orientalism, Chang argues that" [c]itizenship would seem to produce the Asian American female as a coherent, modern subject of the U.S. nation-state, but national...
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