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There's Something about Mary: Female Wisdom and the Folk Presence in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 121–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Shanna Greene Benjamin Abstract Little more than a decade after publishing Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison published “Out of the Hospital and under the Bar” (1963): an excised chapter of the novel that portrayed Mary Rambo—a black woman represented stereotypically in the published manuscript...
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Introduction
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 91–97.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of another chapter of Haiti's history, but also shared, especially as they are also evidence of how Haitians came to each other's aid. Such stories were not the focus of popular media coverage. Within this collection there are stories of courage, stories of solidarity, stories of trauma, stories of hope...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and instead critiques how white supremacy affects the perpetrator. This chapter contributes to ensuring that Black women resisters continue to #SayHerName. As illustrated in the introductory transcripts, when contemporary revolutionary, transformative, or resister Black women are confronted by white state...
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Carlota’s Hum: An Archive Fiction
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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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“Enhancing Human Dignity Here and Around the World”: The Black Sorority as International Uplift Movement
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 392–416.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Aisha A. Upton Azzam Abstract In the second half of the twentieth century, Black sororities began establishing chapters and social programs across the globe, an intentional social action that Aisha A. Upton Azzam conceptualizes as the Black sorority movement (BSM). In this piece, Upton Azzam...
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Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2005
... summaries invaluable for future Asian Americanist scholars. Structurally, Kang divides the chapters into what she sees as "four rather stock figures-writing self, desiring body, national citizen, and transitional worker" (3) as they have been constituted in literary criticism, film studies, history...
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The Aftereffects of Slavery: A Black Feminist Genealogy
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of blackness within and after the legacies of slavery’s denial of Black humanity” (Sharpe 2016 , 14). Sharpe’s book is divided into four chapters exploring aspects of the paradox of dehumanization: “The Wake,” “The Ship,” “The Hold,” and “The Weather.” Each uses the terminology of the slave ship to tie...
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The Diversity of Women’s Studies and Women’s Histories: Reflections from South Asia
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
...-to-capture habitations of beauty,” then, she also suggests “a slowing down of our reading practices” (19). Hence each chapter of the book is deliberately focused on “a single text, author, or sometimes genre of cultural production in order to capture the magnitudes, intensities, scales, and durations...
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Global Feminisms and Food: A Review Essay
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
... FEMINISMS AND FOOD 75 trained in literature, I was particularly grateful for Lindio-McGovern's lucid introduction and opening chapter mapping out germane theoretical debates in her field, including various methods of defining key terms such as under-and overdevelopedF.or Lindio-McGovern, underdevelopeids...
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Returning the American Gaze: Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples of the United States , 1889
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in a separate chapter ofHCHW.As a narrative of the upper-caste Hindu woman's lifelong and multiple oppression within the extended family to which her existence was tethered, and appended with a remedial agenda, HCHW is an Indian feminist manifesto, and an undoubted product of Ramabai's exposure to the American...
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The Interstitial Politics of Black Feminist Organizations
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 155–191.
Published: 01 March 2001
... and women's liberation scholarly literature. Research on Black feminist organizations can contribute a crucial, previously ignored chapter to the historiography of the civil rights and women's movements. These organizations, with their roots firmly entrenched in the civilrights movement, provide a crucial...
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About the Contributors
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 September 2014
... articles and chapters focused on black feminist intellectual history, feminist theory and literature, and theorizing women's studies as a field. Karsonya (Kaye)Wise Whitehead is assistant professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at LoyolaUniversityMaryland, an award-winning K...
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Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 216–222.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., 1841. TheLiberator. (The Library Company of Philadelphia.) narrator's authority (15), and the implications of embodiment for the female subject. Chapter 1 focuses on Nancy Prince, a free black woman born in Massachusetts who accompanied her husband to Russia in 1824, where he worked for nine years...
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Editor's Introduction
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2014
... as portrayed in film. Along the way, they reveal the kind of cultural work that transforms us from being consumers of our own misrepresentation to producers who create our own subjectivities. Since 1998, expurgated chapters ofRalph Ellison's iconic novel, Invisible Man(1952) have been available for scholars...
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Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body: Matrilineal Em-body-ment in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
.... To speak of these atrocities, as numerous comfort camp survivors have done publicly since 1990 (Lee2002) and whose stories inspired Keller's interest in this dark chapter ofKorean national history (Lee2003), is to break the forced silence that colonial Japan, Korean society, and Western societies have...
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Beyond Black Girlhood: An Underground Railroad to Nowhere
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
...” for historically white characters. In The Underground Railroad , Cora’s self-making allows her access to freedom. When she uses the railway to escape Ridgeway, she decides to pick up the pick-ax and dig the tunnel herself, to use her body as a tool to physically free herself. These events in the final chapter...
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Lessons in Transgression: #BlackGirlsMatter and the Feminist Classroom
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
... creative and critical thinking on bell hooks's work. This plan may be modified and used holistically or in part. These assignments can be easily done as stand-alones or in conjunction with one another. READING FEMINISM Is FoR EVERYBODY FeminismIsfor Everybodiys 140 pages in length. There are 19 chapters...
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The Unforgetting of Claribel Alegría: Reckoning with Capitalist Catastrophe in El Salvador
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... This oversight may stem partly from the narrative structure: most of the book chapters orbit around remembering Eugenia, reserving the penultimate chapter to spotlighting Marina. Even so, relating the ravages of the Salvadoran export system that allow a critique of historically invisibilized women’s work...
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Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the final chapter of Black Skin, White Masks is not incidental. The new world order he is striving to create not only excludes black women but requires the wholesale rejection of their reproductive and emotional labor. When Fanon ([1952] 2008 , 204) asserts “I have no right to put down roots” and “I am...
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The 1938 Mississippi Health Project
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 393–415.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of special drug rates; Miss Florence 0. Alexander, State Supervisor of Negro rural teachers; the citizens of the Negro town of Mound Bayou, and its leaders, Mayor Benjamin A, Green and Mr. Eugene P. Booze; and all the chapters of the Alpha Kappa Alpha. Sorority en route to Mississippi, whose members provided...
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