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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... A lush work of memories, poetry, and criticism, the work presents vignettes from the author's life alongside her meditations on writing, history, mapmaking, and most important for this essay, the archives. Brand's memoir is replete with supporting materials that range from ffteenth-century journals...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lauren J. Gantz Abstract This article argues that in her novel, At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999), Dionne Brand uses archives/archiving as a trope by which to trace slavery's aftereffects on the Caribbean and its diasporas. African diasporic authors and critics have long emphasized...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 127–130.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Amrita Basu; Paula Giddings; Inderpal Grewal; Kamala Visweswaran Abstract The links among feminism, race, and transnationalism, which are key to the Meridians project, are also crucial to understanding the events of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. Some pieces in this archive provide feminist...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Alana Perez; Pamela Fernandez Abstract This archive fiction recounts an insurrection led by Carlota in Cuba. Lázaro E. Cosme’s Voces Negras: Desde la plantación holds a chapter detailing the legend of Carlota of the Triunvirato sugar mill in the province of Matanzas, Cuba. The author uses...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 180–203.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo; Jasmine Kelekay; Maimuna Abdullahi; Lena Sawyer Abstract Can counter-archiving be a form of social care? This essay is a dialogue on this topic among four Afro-Nordic feminists writing to each other in the form of letters over a five-month period during 2021. Using...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 233–245.
Published: 01 November 2018
...’ hope was to generate new readings of Africa’s history by shedding light on women’s writing and, in doing so, change assumptions of how knowledge is shaped. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 Women Writing Africa archive canon memory knowledge African feminism Let me begin with my...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Emily Lederman Abstract This essay argues that a queer archive in Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son (2007) recovers the historical Mexican figure Nahui Olin and allows the trans protagonist to navigate less tangible inheritances, including a destructive romantic legacy and a complex Mexican American...
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Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 4. Not a Slumber, Mercantile Hotel , archival pigment print, 36 × 24 in, 2018. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace.
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Figure 5. Congo Square , archival pigment print, 36 × 24 in, 2018. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace.
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Figure 9. trader joe’s , archival pigment print, 24 × 20 in, 2018. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace.
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Figure 2. “Welcome to New Orleans,” St. James Hotel , archival pigment print, 24 × 36 in, 2018. Courtesy of Amanda Russhell Wallace.
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Neo Sinoxolo Musangi Abstract Recent activist and academic work regarding same-gender marriage and relationships has brought to the fore supposed precolonial archives that seem to suggest that something we might call homophobia is as colonial in Africa as is the notion of the nation-state. While...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 34–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... that rejects Dutch colonial expectations of integration and order. Flamboyant’s refusal to be tamed eventually led to the demise of the only archive run by Black women and women of color. This essay firmly situates Flamboyant within a Black and women of color (WOC) European scholarly and activist experience...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Moon Charania Abstract This essay takes on ghosts as an explicit analytic lever to examine the storied archive of one racial and racialized m other . It defines ghosts as conglomerating and attached energies whose nodes of human connection rely on the lived experience of violence, violation...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... While feminist historiographies have restored Partition survivors' memories of violence to the historical archive, Baldwin's novel explicitly foregrounds the role of gendered bodies in and as the archive of communal memories of violence. I begin with Baldwin's exploration of the embodied character...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 205–217.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Jameta N. Barlow Abstract The resistance and reinforcement of structures of gender and race are central to a discussion on identity politics and intersectionality in mental health services research. The goal of the Saving Our Sisters’ (SOS) digital archive project ( www.savingoursistersproject.com...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Amira Jarmakani Abstract This article investigates a sprawling archive of memes (about “Shakira law,” “shari’a Barbie,” and the “jihad squad,”) and incorporates analysis of the original Serial podcast (about the case of Adnan Syed) to look at the role of metadata and dataveillance in criminalizing...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson Abstract This essay explores the relationship between imaging, archival cataloging, and African diasporic belonging through the developed and undeveloped photography of Haitian anthropologist Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain. Using her family correspondences and research...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 465–489.
Published: 01 October 2024
... communities, and challenge homophobia in Arab American communities. Based on an oral history interview with Jadallah, in conjunction with analysis of Jadallah’s personal ephemera collection, this article takes a queer archiving methodological approach to consider how outness as strategy may also be utilized...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
...: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007) and her essay “Venus in Two Acts” (2008). These are arguably two of the most influential works of scholarship in African American feminist studies of the past decade. Hartman’s attempt to use the archive to rescue those lost within, particularly girls...
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