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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Silvia Schultermandl Abstract In Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman (1997), the Korean American protagonist reconciles with her Korean heritage through the act of spreading her mother's ashes. This essay looks at Keller's use of a “language of the body” that protests against rape and other forms...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 506–511.
Published: 01 October 2022
... their mouths lolled pink frantic reverberated oinking the stench of their ready-to-eat flesh toxifying bubbling to over boil like chocolate left too long to melt (years later a girl from my school would throw the body of a New Age traveler into a pit just like that) in the shed pigs were tombed alive...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 84–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
... too. So I dug up my dead baby one night and burnt him to his bones. My living son whimpered in my arms. The flames were too hot. So I took him down to the cool waters of the river. The river taunted me. It promised me freedom, if only I took with me my song. I did. So now, I have a body...
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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
.../black female bodies. As cultural artifacts, I argue that these poetic/political constructs give evidence of Afro- Brazilian female bodies as historical: on one hand, they represent the embodiment of “otherness” as they historically differ from the standards of (white) “normalcy;” on the other hand...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Patricia de Santana Pinho Abstract This article examines representations of domestic workers in Brazilian “common sense,” in the Gramscian use of the term. It argues that the dominant trope of maids' bodies as “dirty,” and yet the “most suitable” to carry out the job of cleaning, is produced...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2006
... the consequence of this absence at the same moment that U.S. feminist studies goes looking for transnational bodies while local body-politics are underinterrogated, and while science studies focus us on intimate matters ofbeing human that ultimately and deeply implicate race and gender. To illustrate this paradox...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Saturarla mentea ninosinocentes Coneducaci6inncosistente Manipuladaviciosamentae Conveniencdiaelprominentedelaspudiente1s --Tego Calderon, "Loiza," (2002) This autoethnography examines the intersections of the racialized, gendered, and sexualized body that have defined my life across and within Puerto Rico...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 106–123.
Published: 01 March 2010
... factthat the child is lectured with little room for discussion. Consequently,"Girl"is usuallyjustlyread as CAROL BAILEY PERFORMANCE AND THE GENDERED BODY 107 typical of Caribbean women writers' rejection of what Catherine John refers to as "culturally Eurogendered paradigms of womanhood" (John 2003, 56...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Deepti Misri Abstract: This article explores how Shauna Singh Baldwin's novel What the Body Remembers builds on Partition feminist historiography in order to exhume and retell the story of family violence against women during India's Partition, intended to “save their honor” from rioting mobs...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 82–96.
Published: 01 September 2018
... feminist studies, I offer black hair haptics as an analytic for the racialized and gendered dimensions of quotidian public interpersonal engagement with black hair as an extension of the black body. I argue that black hair is a unique site of analysis for transgressions of socially appropriate...
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Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 3. Our 2018 proposed structure to connect the various PVWC bodies. Each body will have at least two representatives, but the worker committees will hold the most decision-making power. As of early 2019, the farm cooperative has been added. In November 2019, we will hold our first
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... continuing their work of mothering and affirming the worth of their children’s lives, even when all that remains of their children are their dead bodies. In this way, the authors hope to highlight how Black mothers who embody revolutionary mothering through maternal activism enable them to imagine...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
... a feminist, politically engaged reading of these texts that not only recovers silenced stories of sexual violence and racialized oppression, but also foregrounds women's embodied subjectivity. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 WIEBKE BEUSHAUSEN Sexual Citizenship and Vulnerable Bodies in Makeda...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 189–204.
Published: 01 December 2016
... disproportionately affects people of color and the poor. The author argues that justice cannot be had while ignoring environmental racism, as unjust environmental conditions devalue Black bodies and the potential of Black and poor children worldwide. The second half of this piece contains a lesson plan for teachers...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 230–237.
Published: 01 March 2018
...jessica Care moore Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 JESSICA CARE MOORE We Want Our Bodies Back I wrote and read this poem for the first time in Ferguson, Missouri. I was a part ofa two-day artist-driven fundraising effort to support the family of seventeen-year-old Michael Brown, who...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Ifi Amadiume Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 ESSAY Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments m IFI AMADIUME In this essay I will examine collectivist notions of women's solidarity in relation to women's power in traditional cultures and societies in Africa. My...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
... an opportunity to explore the challenges of visualizing the trauma of ethnic cleansing within a context in which information is urgently needed to 6 WENDY KOZOL mobilize political action but in which the dilemma of representation consistently reinscribes a Western gaze at the victimized ethnic body. Moving...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Aslı Zengin Abstract In Sunni Muslim funerals in Turkey, the state, religious actors, and members of kin and family hold the obligations and rights to the deceased, such as washing, shrouding, burying, and praying for the dead body, which the author characterizes as care for the dead. The practices...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
... against Portuguese colonialism. It pays particular attention to how nationalist movements deployed the trope of patriotic motherhood to appeal to women to join and support the fight for national independence. Focusing primarily on the maternal body, this essay argues that while women are often rendered...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the representations of black women bodies as complex discursive spaces, the essay explores Barbadian women’s struggles with latent colonial paradigms and highlights women’s assertions of agency and their challenging of limiting constructs. Utilizing the theoretical insights of numerous transnational and African...
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