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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the theme of interracial sexuality to explore racial pride, self-determination, community, and autonomy. Numerous black women writers during this period struggled with the history, the reality, and the potentiality of interracial relationships. For example, Perkins suggests that the autobiographies of three...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the line” (Wall 2005)—black women writers' emphasizing, clarification, and subversion of literary traditions—to examine how black women in different cultural contexts write themselves into visual and historical records. Contributing to burgeoning interest in the Americas as a transnational space, I argue...
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Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature
Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 148–176.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., they carry both the silenced histories of racial and sexual exploitation and the appeal of hyper-sexualized and exoticized stereotypes. I am also interested in discussing how these writings/writers articulate notions and images connected to discourses of mestiçagem in order to rewrite black women's bodies...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 212–237.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the European and the Black" (Gilman 1986, 231, quoted in Mugubane 2001, 817), andas "a late-twentieth-century icon for the violence done to women of African descent" (Strother 1999, 37, quoted in Mugabane 2001, 817). Although it would seem that the desire on the part of the African-American women writers I...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 184–204.
Published: 01 September 2018
... generous, educated, and loving self before ultimately shooting her in the face in an act of cold-blooded murder. As Claudia Tate ( 1983 , 175) writes in her seminal collection of interviews, Black Women Writers at Work, “Much of Walker’s work portrays the spiritual and physical devastation that occurs...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Leigh Johnson Abstract This article argues that, as a tool for social justice and resistance, the concept of motherwork can be usefully applied to two texts by Chicana writers—Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe and Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue . The essay draws on Patricia Hill Collins's...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
... grounding of the black experience in North America (Hull 1994, 98). Clifton describes herself as having a "call" to poetry, a "vocation" to be a writer, similar to a nun's "vocation" (Rowell 1999, 72). As in the work of the women religious in Catholicism and Candomble, Clifton's "call" does not, somehow...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 264–266.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... This puts Bernard on one side and Campbell and McDonald on the other. The primary differences in perspective among them are the result oflived historical experiences, location, and generation (231). Through her investigation of these important Costa Rican black women writers, Mosby offers a compelling...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 September 2001
... was to announce the black cultural awakening to the white men and women with the money and clout to sponsor its artists. They got the message. Paul Kellogg, editor of SurveyGraphic,offered to devote a special issue of his journal to the work of black writers; the issue was subsequently expanded and published...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 205–235.
Published: 01 March 2004
... "girls who wore black," but rarely a mention of girls who wereblack. Bohemian black women scarcely appear even in works by African-American writers, although in reality such women have existed on the margins of mainstream and black cultures. Beat generation writers might have influenced Toni Cade...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 382–388.
Published: 01 March 2017
... on a month-long cultural tour of Europe. It was a chance to become "a travelin' woman." What does it mean for a Black woman writer to be a traveling woman? How does travel affect Black women's creative and intellectual subjectivities? Alternatively, how does racialized and femalegendered experience alter...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): xvi–xviii.
Published: 01 September 2000
... in the profession before her own pain. Like many of the multitude who mourn her death, I first met Barbara Christian through her scholarship on black women writers, which began appearing in print in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I was teaching at the time at Tufts University and Emerson College-putting several...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 216–222.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., Fish must contend with the fact that, especially in comparison to these two black women writers, Fuller wrote from a position of race and class privilege. Thus where Fish describes Prince as being confined to the ship when it docks at KeyWest en route to New Yorkfrom Jamaica, for fear of being taken...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 185–205.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Feminist Thought for an extensive discussion on the concept of “othermothering.” 7 Collins ( 2009 : 165) cites writer Gayl Jones’s use of the expression “love and trouble” to describe the blues relationships between Black men and women. 8 Notable examples include some Black women’s vocal...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 43–60.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., diseased, and ugly, black women writers seek to re- 48 JENNIFER THORINGTON SPRINGER constitute these bodies. Some black women have arduously documented the impact of artificial standards of beauty on black women's lives in the past decade many other black women writers have started to explore female bodies...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . 2006 . “ Adoption Narratives, Trauma, and Origins .” Narrative 14 , no. 1 : 4 – 26 . Morrison Toni . 1983 . “ Recitatif .” In Confirmation: An Anthology of Black Women Writers , edited by Baraka Amiri and Baraka Amina , 243 – 61 . New York : Quill . Morrison...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 507–517.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to the publication of SarahPhillips,Lee wrote about international travel in memoir form. With her National Book Award nominated Russian Journal(1981), she joined a select few black women writers and intellectuals, like Audre Larde and Angela Davis, in Cold War deliberations about life under communism reflected...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 88–120.
Published: 01 March 2014
... approach to black women writers' intertextuality, inspiriting influences for Southgate's work: a "literary forebear whose texts are celebrated even as they are revised, praised for their insights even when these insights are deemed inadequate to describe more contemporary manifestations of Afro-American...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic References . New York : William Morrow . Hernton Calvin . 1984 . “ The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers .” Black American Literature Forum 8 , no. 4 : 139 – 45 . Holiday Harmony . 2014 . Go Find Your Father...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 130–152.
Published: 01 September 2001
... a certain kind of"women's liberation" movement adapted to the needs of Black South African women, were in the minority (Nchwe quoted in Boitumelo 1979). The establishment of a "Women Writers Speak" column in Staffiider11 CONTRADICTORY LOCATIONS 143 in November/December 1979 meant that, for the first time...
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