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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and daughters absented presence death When my mother asked what I wanted for my forty-second birthday, I told her that I wanted her to mark my death. I had decided that the version of me that had been birthed by her needed to die, and that someone else needed to be birthed in her place. Dying Grace...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Selina Makana Abstract The assertion that the mid-twentieth century Black freedom struggles across the African diaspora was a masculine era is one that continues to strike a chord with many African women whose voices have remained absent from the rhetoric on national liberation struggles across...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 121–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
...) transcends page and prose to characterize the absent presence of Mary Rambo: a "woman of the folk" who lives a dual life as both a character in the novel and as a figure beyond it (Ellison 1963a, 243). Present because she is included in the novel proper yet absent because she is fully developed only outside...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as multiply constituted and not as any one thing. Neither simply targets of racism nor pious or non-pious subjects reacting to it, we emphasize Muslims as complex and dynamically constituted social and political subjects. Islam can be an absent presence in Muslim feminist discourses. Included...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
...: the archive takes place at the originary and structural breakdown of the said memory" (Derrida 1996, n). This is essentially the premise with which Brand begins, for the Door to No Return stands as just such a site. She writes, "this door exists as through a prism, distorted and shimmering An absent presence...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2006
... the ethnic others in these captivating late-night, early-morning, special, and breaking-news news stories? This essay explores a paradox of white racial disappearing as it is reported with vigor in the media and as it is absented from academic feminist study. It situates this paradox in an inquiry about...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 331–337.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., but “representation” also means “to make present again.” As a genre, “still life” is life that is still but not stilled. Still life is, still, life. Life perceptible to the stillness of an attentive mind; life collected and re-collected; life present, absent, remembered, re-gathered. Photographs are both here...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and racially signifies blackness. So, Mrs. B. figuratively casts the memory of Nig’s enslavement into the black barrens to whitewash the racial constitution of the house’s spatial memory. She thus remodels the house’s demonic grounds into their second adaptation: “the absented presence” of black female...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... advance, illustrating her disidentificatory relation with them and making her assault all the more horrifying in its sharp contrast with the stories of romance and eternal love “that told it wrong.” Likewise, Sally’s absent presence in “Red Clowns,” the story detailing Esperanza’s rape, links...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2005
... absent. While this is not a measure of the novel's quality, it is certainly noteworthy in the context of contemporary trends in Caribbean women's fiction. Butteljlyin theWindtraces the life ofits protagonist-narrator, Kamla, from early childhood to early adulthood, emphasizing her awareness of her...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., a child might have been able to see on both sides of her face. As a daughter, I feel my mother's phantom grief, but she tells her story very matter of fact, and she ends the tale with pride. She was the best student when she re-entered school after two absent years. The best student and only one eye...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... for grabs, just unlabeled as yet. Despite their determination to live as free subjects (or, perhaps better, as floating signifiers in a linguistic idiom resonant with “Recitatif”), the women of A Mercy persist in orbiting around the men’s absent presence. The bulk of the novel focuses on the lives...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 69–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
... a dream of fused words, absent information recovered, codified, you know she thirsts, imagining a glass of water, an image understood by looking at the space in her hand cradled for a glass, desire understood in the absence of conventional expression, she thirsts, yes, in the absence of words. 2. Ofwords...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
... about Pleasant, who provided major funding and leadership in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859—and indeed the stone that marks her grave reads simply: “M. E. P. She was a friend of John Brown”—because her role in the raid and in U.S. abolition is absent from nearly all historical documentation...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... might have allowed Commander a richer reflection on the meaning of what is absent. For example, some of the most common desires Commander writes about, derived either from cultural productions or interviews, include reliving the experiences of ancestors by visiting sites of enslavement, such as slave...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 March 2006
... in which we find them. Thus in the uninvited presence of viewer, or is it a troublesome husband/father, that the tense pose and inscrutable facial expression suggest, the women assert their mutual solidarity and strength made all the more palpable by the older woman's powerful hands, solid neck, and strong...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2015
... called home," firmly positions class privilege from the start. Thus she claims that a particular class position"' within Yoruba social structure a particular Yoruba Ogbomosho location informs subsequent understandings, but its impact on the rest of the analysis disappears, while it remains an absent...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that Mangeshkar's voice provided the perfect solution to this dilemma: "at 148 MERIDIANS 8:1 the same time that women's bodies became visible in public spaces via films, their presence was 'thinned' through the [limited] expressive timbre granted them" through Mangeshkar's voice. In other words, her desexualized...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
... a "haunting" (25), making its presence felt insidiously: in "tastes, habits, and styles" (204), in genealogical gaps, in historical silences, and in structures of feeling. The Door is thus omnipresent, making a return to physical sites at best an incomplete means of achieving redress.' Like other...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a distorted image of white humanity into a distorted image of the non-dominant other with whom she desires resistant company. Non-specific and ungrounded in her presence, she adopts, mimics, and/or otherwise takes up the ways of others, often with little self-critique or question. Otherwise stated...
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