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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . https://post45.org/2019/12/trace-alignment-object-relations-after-ana-mendieta/ . Lopez Pedro . 2019 . “ Tear Basins .” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art 57 ( Spring ): 197 – 99 . Milstein Cindy , ed. 2017 . Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief . Chico, CA...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
... steps away from the predatory archetype, formulating a theory of women’s loss and mourning through the motif of “forward backwardness” epitomized by the ciguapa’s feet. Using selections from the work of Dominican American poet Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932), the author outlines the feminist paradigm...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... Of the geographic illegibility of slavery’s mournable subjects Saidiya Hartman ( 2007 : 108) writes, “It’s the place where the car hit the tree and your mother and brother died . . . but it’s just a regular street for everyone else.” Between the illegible and the retrievable we find collective recourses to mourning...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 299–301.
Published: 01 October 2022
... sense. However, I hadn’t thought about how mourning could be feminist until I read Guest Editors Kimberly Juanita Brown and Jyoti Puri’s proposal. To them, feminist mourning moves beyond individual and/or collective grief over what has been lost to “contend with the social and political conditions...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
... shape in different ways. There is the public mourning of Black Lives Matter, appearing in material culture on black T-shirts with the names of those gunned down by the state; these are often worn in the street in or near the performance of a die-in, a collective form of movement that rehearses bodies...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to the stories, and I am too busy chasing white capital for our collective Black survival. This essay is part personal history, part meditation, part prayer, and part poem. It is a life collage made of experiential fragments performed and mourned. We are a trinity of women. We are performance and archive. We...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of religious scripts and practices, it is not always enacted with religious intention. The washing ritual is a socio-culturally dominant framework of mourning in Turkey and allows for a collectively recognized space of loss and grief. Thus the funerals of atheists and nonbelievers may involve ceremonies...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 331–337.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to unpredictable else-wheres and else-hows of inhabiting diverse modes of being in the world. Photographs are not what was photographed. Photographs are themselves re-collections, interpretive memories that grow more distant from that which they represent by circulation and with the passage of time...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 36–61.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to official discourse threaten to undermine a future in which the traumatic past is completely demystified and integrated into the historical narrative of the U.S. Like mourning, which depends on the successful replacement of one lost object by another, more attainable object, the subject's collective...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
... , 28–29). Like mourning, which depends on the successful replacement of one lost object by another, more attainable object, the subject’s collective inclusion is contingent on her ability to replace her material past with the promised future of American identification. Cha denies the immigrant...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... by racial melancholia insofar as she bewails being governed as black and covets whiteness. Nig tends to her inner wounds by mourning, but social death chokes off her measures to work through her losses. This affective asphyxiation illustrates that her psychic condition arises not from an inner inability...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
...). Brand is thus forced to take a circuitous route, collecting the few traces she can find: "random shards of history and unwritten memoir" (Brand 2001, 19), passing references in colonial archives, and clues afforded by the "broken stones, bones, and carvings" (198) in museum collections. In effect...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of loss, grief, and mourning when state agents and other actors take their children’s lives. Black mothers have long had to answer the question, on realizing the abysmal nature of their position, Why go on? To answer this question, one must return to the Middle Passage and consider the alchemical...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
... voice beyond death and a stubborn refusal to be silenced by friend and foe alike. Chankija’s (2013a) antiwar poems are grouped together in “Part Two” of her second collection of poetry, Monsoon Mourning , under the title “Death, Violence, and Bloodshed” ( fig. 3 ). This tryptic provides the essential...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
... have been powerful tools for women's individual and collective activism throughout history and across many nations. From the 1929 Aba Women's War staged by market women in Nigeria to protest against the British 368 MERIDIANS 15:2 colonialists imposition of taxes, to Mamie Till's mourning and her choice...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
... epistemology that grapples with the complexity of crisis, death, and mourning in the context of colonial war and constant displacement. Proactive grief intertwines with place and one’s relationship to it. It structures itself through a cultivated conviction in origin and the Palestinians’ perception of life...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
... the site of collective and ambivalent fantasies, desires, and anxieties? This essay focuses on the "oriental feminine" as one such site of racial fantasy, desire, anxiety, and enjoyment. Contemporary analyses ofracial representation tend to operate within the Lacanian registers of the imaginary...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 290–299.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and private spaces while questioning how mourning is an act of (dis)respectability. The green light to mourn police brutality victims is often grounded in middle class respectability politics-a belief that the deceased was educated, from a satisfactory background, and visually appealing (respectable...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the long and complex lived histories of conflict in Kashmir, multigenerational modes of individual and collective forms of resistance, and heteronormative cultures and how this inflects living with the occupation at intersections of class and ethnicity, professional and personal ambitions, and social...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Justice Initiative. Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror , 3rd ed. Montgomery, Alabama, 2017, 4. Figure 1. Mary Turner , by Rachel Williams. Mary Turner Series. 2016. Linoleum Block Print on paper. Collection of Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia. Figure 1...
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