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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 27.
Published: 01 March 2003
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 225.
Published: 01 September 2004
... sit, five in the morning, watching Swan'sCrossing. A character lived on a boat. Her bed above water, rocks her into sleep, rocks her away from living. This boat takes us away from Him, who holds us in tough embraces and lullabies us with heavy, drunk whispers, reminds us in snarled parables we...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 261–266.
Published: 01 March 2004
... the story of Shim Chung, the blind man's daughter who leaps from the bow of a fishing boat; her schoolgirl body, a sacrifice to the dragon god beneath the sea. Bags of rice the sailors exchange for her offered as a bribe to the temple to restore her father's sight. [Meridians:feminism,race...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
... government. 2 As the protagonist moves from one place to another to take refuge from life-threatening circumstances, she is constantly confined to closed spaces: when escaping from Japanese invasion in a boat, she is stranded in a river gorge in inland China; when fleeing the Communist takeover, she...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 506–511.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of molding somebody’s mother came w/pristine marla , a cheap version of play-doh we sat in a circle around her as she smoothed the strips of marla into heads + bodies she made a family, a mum, a dad + two children she put this family into a boat that she had carved like a viking foirfe she said...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 223.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... I see this land the way I want to remember, do the same for childhood love.The rough hand that touched me but didn't scrape down to bone. Like those Africans choking down mouthfuls of home before they were loaded onto the boats, this place might move through me soon and be gone.- The clucking...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 100.
Published: 01 March 2002
... then sweeps her Indian family's floor and helps butcher their dinner. I like her because we can go to Mystic, Connecticut where 750 Indians were burned alive and I don't feel weird about making tobacco offerings in front of her because I know if she got off the boat in 1492 none of this shit would have...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... transformed and empowered from grief as maternal activists in service to their children’s existence? Black mothers have too often found themselves in the same boat, floating in grief over the killing of their children by the state or militia. The boat or slave ship, described by Édouard Glissant ( 1997...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 142–152.
Published: 01 September 2014
... onto the escape boat with her, ripped Tubman's military dress to shreds, a detail she used to argue later that she should not be required to wear a dress during her military maneuvers), 3 but for some of us it was a major stretch to convince our workplaces and departments that this journey was worthy...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Treaty was established between Dutch traders and Haudenosaunee peoples and later extended to relationships with French, British, and American settlers. The Two Row Wampum belt depicts two boats on a river. According to Indigenous philosophers such as Dale Turner ( 2006 : 49), the Two Row Wampum...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 8–13.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... so physically naïve. did we think we wouldn’t ever poison the water. whales are wise. they stay far out at sea. if you chase in a boat they will spit in your face. in salt water, they call each other. like i am calling you. 8 1 then there is nothing I can’t do : Wynter ( 2000...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 April 2022
... cheek. By the shore, she saw a boat. There was the tune again; she was getting closer. She walked slowly toward it until she encountered a peculiarly placed mango tree. It didn’t make sense for one to be planted in the middle of sand, but apparently it made sense here. Fermina had to wait a little...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 11–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
... does Afrik-Ginen, the mythic realm beneath the sea, represent for Haitians? ED: I always thought at the time that I was writing that story . . . I kept thinking of the Middle Passage. At that time, there were a lot of Haitians arriving in the United States by boat. It was the early 1990s, after...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... I could go out on those [gambling] boats right now and win a million dollars. But I couldn't sleep at night ifl didn't buy some books for the school." VII The importance of dissent is omnipresent in four other contributions to this volume: Violet Budine Barriteau's essay "AFeminist Theorizing...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 183–188.
Published: 01 September 2009
... is: With whom do we have a better chance of surviving the madness and fear we are presently enduring, and with whom do we wish to set off on a journey of new possibility? In other words, as the Hopi elders would say: Who do we want in the boat with us as we head for the rapids? Who is likely to know how best...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of zombification or soul-lessness. Her compromised subjectivity distances her from the desperate call of her own blood in acts of misrecognition and false allegiance for which she will pay the costly price of isolation: “But some of us are destined / to build boats on hilltops / and pay for them” (Changkija 2013a...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 412–434.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that the latter are essentially inferior. She notes: Den everybody hooda shout An spread it near an far Ow battleship and U-boat fail, But Obeah win de war (83 I. 29-32) In these lines, the speaker avers that everyone would shout and spread it near and far how battleships and U-boats failed, but obeah won the war...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... Once we got home, she’d set the boxes up in our living room with bags of markers so I could spend the rest of the afternoon decorating my houses and museums and skyscrapers and boats. I called out to her every time I needed a door or window cut and my mother would leap over with box cutters, asking...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 363–388.
Published: 01 December 2020
... affirm positive affects toward women with white skin color and “race,” and, of course, their cosmopolitan whiteness. First, unlike whitening ads, none of these tanning ads use the word blackening or browning—words that have racial connotations in the U.S. context. Rather, ads for Banana Boat and L’Oréal...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., their cosmopolitan whiteness. First, unlike whitening ads, none of these tanning ads use the word blackening or browning-words that have racial connotations in the U.S. context. Rather, ads for Banana Boat and L'Oreal, for example, use the word "tan" or "bronze." "Deepest bronze," a surreal color-a color...
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