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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and Blige's work, I examine the politics of black women's pop music culture in relation to the Gulf Coast catastrophe and the extreme marginalization of black women in American sociopolitical culture. I suggest that we look closely at the musical performances of Beyoncé as well as Blige, as each artist's work...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... Blige’s history-making Katrina telethon performance are central to this discussion. The original title of this article was “‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’: Black Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe.” Works Cited Amber Jeannine . 2006...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
Published: 01 October 2024
... transition intervolved with societal collapse. They each interact with events of catastrophic conflict, transmuting harrowing experiences of peripheral labor, addressing concealed colonial-patriarchal power relations, and challenging differential marginalization: the targeting of Indigenous peoples...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 91–97.
Published: 01 September 2011
... landscape, a textured representation of this catastrophic moment. While the collection is by no means representative of the population, nor does it seek to be, it does demonstrate that, indeed, those left behind clearly have stories to tell that must not only be gathered and archived, as they are now part...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 139–148.
Published: 01 December 2020
... highlighted the history of U.S. foreign policy and sought to mobilize feminist opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan. The war, she argued, was reviving the colonial/imperial global divide and would be catastrophic. The author explores here how a number of carefully considered words used in the speech were...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 142.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jacqueline Bishop Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 JACQUELINE BISHOP ThreeLilacs Allpoetryisa catastrophe. -Anna Ahkmatova Years later, when everyone came to visit, when there were awards, recognition and international travel, when there was Mozart again, black bread and vodka; when you...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and propels Marie-Pierre from one catastrophe to the next. The verb that Marie-Pierre employs to characterize this motion, trimbaler , has strong connotations of movement that is met with resistance. It evokes the image of dragging someone from place to place against their will. This idea...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 149–157.
Published: 01 September 2011
... see them!-Solange, PotoMitan If I'm alive I can say that it's only thanks to God because, for me, I didn't think I would live anymore. I was leaving work. I didn't have time to get home because the catastrophe took me when I was walking in a corridor, when I was still going home. I felt movement...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 42–57.
Published: 01 September 2001
... from their homes and farms. Ultimately, the documentary Eppawalais an urgent appeal to everyone outside of Sri Lanka to stop this man-made catastrophe. The film also exposes the terrifying and exploitative nature of globalism and corporate encroachment on national and community sovereignty. The fact...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 76–93.
Published: 01 April 2023
... something to make it less dissimilar. . . . [This is] an opportunity to actually create those feelings of discomfort. I think it is very important to make [my activism] uncomfortable. This article is based on the empirical findings of Emejulu’s project, “The Politics of Catastrophe . ” This project...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the past. Where wesee the appearance of a chain of events, hesees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 98–105.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the public of an impending earthquake in the area of Port-au-Prince. On Friday morning, I heard him on the radio. He was invited to a round-table discussion and was explaining why the earthquake had been so catastrophic, how the absence of official building codes and non-adherence to building standards had...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Ginetta E. B. Candelario Reckoning with the legacies of the social harm wrought by the interrelated forces of global capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy is the focus of “The Unforgetting of Claribel Alegría: Reckoning with Capitalist Catastrophe in El Salvador” by Guadalupe Escobar...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... by these dancers, is in control of the elements around him. Even as the background portrays chaos, the dancers themselves continue moving joyously, able to avoid catastrophe by the technology of their dance. If Indiana’s Dominican futurism has succeeded in pairing the speculative with negative aesthetics...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
... engage in daily, even if not consciously aware of the details that instigate such actions. His Tear Basins (2017), a series of stone sculptural installations created to be placed across public landscapes, are a response to the ongoing economic and natural catastrophes of Puerto Rico, and the effects...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 306–331.
Published: 01 October 2024
... US$3 trillion due to unregulated corporate greed. Being pushed to the brink of global climate catastrophe is but one upshot. It is reported that only one hundred corporations are responsible for over 70 percent of global carbon emissions, yet the people who are suffering from the repercussions...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 218–228.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., marginalized, and those brave enough to speak out against Duterte. It is an epidemic . The Duterte regime consistently transmits social catastrophe to the body politic, and tracing the contacts between extrajudicial killing and epidemiologic death reveals the harrowing consequences of the Philippine...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2020
... That You Can’t Leave Behind’: Black Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe .” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 8 , no. 1 : 180 – 204 . Calvo Luz . 2004 . “ Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... things were on my mother’s agenda, the facts repeated to us daughters again and again as natural catastrophes. The first one was racism, impossible to change, presented as how things were. The second one was sexism, another fact of life, how men were. And with the agenda, the solutions: work hard, work...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 124–140.
Published: 01 March 2010
... learned about my friend Fran~oise Basch's sentiments in her biography of her famous grandfather, Victor, who was assassinated by the Nazis: "In my family, nothing of our Jewish heritage was passed down to me, neither historical memory nor references to tradition. The collective catastrophes...
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