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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 91–97.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of another chapter of Haiti's history, but also shared, especially as they are also evidence of how Haitians came to each other's aid. Such stories were not the focus of popular media coverage. Within this collection there are stories of courage, stories of solidarity, stories of trauma, stories of hope...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... Woodson ( 1937 ), who praised Comhaire-Sylvain as “one of the most intellectual people of Haiti.” As a colleague of the elder Haitian ethnographer Jean Price-Mars, she studied the field of ethnography and produced research that documented and argued for the significance of African survivals in Haitian...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 132–140.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the foreground to be seen. I share the remarkable stories of my people to dismantle this paradigm. The multiple tragedies ofJanuary 12, 2010 in Haiti connected the Haitian diaspora into one large family in a way I have never seen or felt in my lifetime. Accordingly,when we watched the news coverage of members...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 92–116.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the understanding of discourses of consumption, urbanization, and memorialization. Haiti: The Lost Relation The Haitian village of Croix-des-Rosets described in the first part could be summed up as the place of connection between Sophie Caco and her land, her community, and her mothers. Tante Atie's and Grandme...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 118–123.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to women's rights, to access to full citizenship for all excluded groups, and to her love for Haiti. She was a 120 MERIDIANS 11:1 feminist activist in the Canadian Haitian Diaspora and remained one when she went back to Haiti in 1987.Before she joined the Ministry ofWomen as Chief of Staff in 2004, she...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 11–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., the questions posed here consider the religious import of Danticat’s literary works as “sacred texts” of Haiti and the Haitian dyaspora . [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 Haiti and Haitian diaspora Vodou Caribbean women writers environmental studies Edwidge Danticat...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 110–131.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is that of Haitian diaspora in the U.S., where she will join her mother but abandon her Tante Atie and Grandme Ife.Also Sophie's migration from Haiti to the U.S. is preceded by her mother's migration, which is precipitated by sexual violence: she flees Haiti after being raped, giving birth to Sophie (the child...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-than-life people, figures, characters, and personalities whose presence in literature, history, folklore, politics, and popular culture shapes creative production, criticism and fantasies in Haiti and the diaspora. This pantheon of Haitians-both real and imaginary-contains those such as Anacaona...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the fiction of a stable, coherent identity across linear space and time” is signaled. Similarly, Grace L. Sanders Johnson’s Media Matters piece, “Picturing Herself in Africa: Haiti, Diaspora, and the Visual Folkloric,” offers an empathetic yet critical analysis of Haitian feminist anthropologist...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... With this context in mind, Edwidge Danticat’s reflections on the perennial assaults on sovereignty, peace, and well-being that Haiti and Haitians have suffered and overcome thanks to their spiritual traditions and practices are critical counters to persistent anti-Haitian attitudes and discourses in the media...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... lyrical commitment to discussing issues of anti-Black and anti-Haitian prejudice in the Dominican Republic, as well as her Black and Brown visual archive in music videos, as a willingness to place her physical body in a space the national body deems “other.” 8 In “La hora de volvé,” which we...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Republic, which has repeatedly negated a strong and important African heritage. Alvarez's national history includes the 1937 massacre of tens of thousands of ethnic Haitians on the Dominican border. This tragedy, retold by the Trujillo machine of state terror, erased the lives of many individuals and gave...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., that Haiti’s political and economic difficulties are the result of some “original sin” committed during the Haitian Revolution (Danticat and Trouillot 2005 ). By asking if it is the world that owes a debt to Haiti, Danticat shifts that original sin from the Haitian Revolution to its aftermath. The seemingly...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and Afro-Antillean literature-which were not always produced by authors TAKKARABRUNSON EUSEBIACOSMEANDBLACKWOMANHOOD 393 of African descent-began to examine cultural authenticity as they depicted black folk culture and African traditions in their works. Langston Hughes, Nicolas Guillen, and Haitian...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... for examining resistance as well as how our own reading and observational practices might be complicit with that violence. The poetry of Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Kamau Brathwaite anchors Sharpe’s exploration of contemporary events such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2013 capsizing...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... “Le grand camouflage” is a direct response to Breton in which Césaire asserts that he has misunderstood her, that her beauty and openness have masked the fact that she is not there for his consumption, that her face is turned toward Africa, toward Haiti. The doudou is a skin she removes, like...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... this, they threw things at me while I sang. Yes, yes, yes. Fortuna’s political engagement started locally, but eventually her world expanded. As a black girl from a town in northern Dominican Republic, growing up not far from the site of the massacre of tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... In French, there was petit marronage —running away, generally alone and for a short time—and grand marronage , the building of free communities. In Haiti, it was maroon communities that led the Haitian Revolution. They were the reservoir of political thought that gave rise to revolts by those enslaved...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 22–50.
Published: 01 December 2020
... attests to resistance to acculturation and insistence on an alternative, or “other” space. Dominicans, who might have been considered Black by European and U.S. observers were it not for their own colonial antipathy toward Haiti and later, toward Haitians, historically have been endowed with a sort...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
... colonial antipathy toward Haiti and later, toward Haitians, historically have been endowed with a sort of literary and political honorary whiteness in the service of both the domestic elite and the military and political-economic interests of the United States. It is an ethno-racial identity formulation...
