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... sentient beings, ancestral knowledge, and Oaxacans’ relations with their environment. Such practices are especially relevant for family members who experience emotional distress related to migration and inequality. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 Smith College 2025 cultural memory...

... in cultural audience, geographic location, blood quantum, appearance, and reliable memory concluding, "There certainly can be no theory that encompasses all these voices, except maybe that Indigenous women share what I call a 'commonality of difference' (Mihesuah 2003, 30). Green cites the difficulties...

... is a characteristic of Caribbean autobiography and, although neither writes specifically about A Map,they articulate a critical project in which Brand, too, participates. What I wish to emphasize about the enmeshment of memory and history is not so much that Brand engages in a "culture-building exercise" as that she...

... and ThreeDaysbeforetheShootingwas underway. 4 This essay examines the expurgated chapter to reveal how voice, agency, and memory impact Invisible Man's physical and psychological ascent while confirming Ellison's deep respect for the wisdom imbedded within black folk culture. Using past as prologue, my essay responds to a call...

...Janell Hobson Abstract This essay explores representations of Harriet Tubman in African American art and contemporary popular culture. From art to children's literature to Hollywood films to public memorials, these works flatten the historical while hyperbolizing the fantastical elements of Tubman...

... the problematic of tribal diversity (the “extraordinary differences in cultural audience, geographic location, blood quantum, appearance, and reliable memory”), concluding, “There certainly can be no theory that encompasses all these voices, except maybe that Indigenous women share what I call a ‘commonality...

... and the Struggle for Social Justice . New York : Routledge . Bal Mieke . 1999 . Introduction to Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present , edited by Bal Mieke , Crewe Jonathan , and Spitzer Leo , vii – xvii . Hanover, NH : University Press of New England . Barbas...

... are dramatically whisked away into the past, where traumatic histories bear no tangible effects in the present. Rather than taking history down verbatim, Dictée urges us to pause in the silent gaps and furious dins that might exist between dominant American discourse and the cultural memory of diasporic...

... and the cultural memory of diasporic Koreans in the U.S. This is because the history of the Korean peninsula cannot be recalled without sparking memory of American intervention. Cha reminds us to pursue a kind of conscientious historical practice, in which we examine not so much the validity of one's grief over...

... of ethnography, performances of cultural memory, and the impact of migration. She is currently completing a book on ethnography and African American literature published between 1900 and 1940. WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI, born I April 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya, is an environmental and political activist. In 2004 she became...

... to preserving not only the physical remnants of her life in Auburn, NY,but her historical and cultural memory, too. Once restoration by the Harriet Tubman Booster's Club was completed, the Church has maintained the property as a public museum. Harriet Tubman's residence, located on an abutting seven acres...

... impulse to define and control women's "excessive" sexuality. The contradiction, according to the author, compels us to find new ways to affiliate and find affinity with the culture. Memory that inspires, mobilizes to action, and acknowledges those who broke the ground on which we stand is evoked...

... ON WRITING AND RETURN 119 circumstances, free from military assault and from the indignities and oppressions wrought under occupation, the longing for return may be played out largely on the level of cultural memory. Palestinians in the U.S. are circumscribed by the pressures of American immigrant life...

..., but actual. For Palestinians in places such as the U.S., living under less tenuous circumstances, free from military assault and from the indignities and oppressions wrought under occupation, the longing for return may be played out largely on the level of cultural memory. Palestinians in the U.S...

... City, and a mythic, ancestral African home. This range of geographic locations constitute a symbolic map of the Black Atlantic world depicted in Marshall's fiction; they are sites of memory, which Melvin Dixon describes as a "memorygenerating spaces" in which "a viable [Black Atlantic] culture...

... and repercussions. Humor in Julia's Stories: Trauma in Memory While her personal essays deliberate on her particular identity conundrum, her fictional stories are highly performative, 5 highlighting the complexity of assimilation into U.S. culture. A novel such as HowtheGarcfoGirlsLost TheirAccentrselies on both...

... any linear construction of history, the memoir in its performance of memory represents the collaborative nature of the Chinese diasporic archive. Tracing her great-grandfather’s life along with the lives of her grandmother, great-aunt, and other family members, Fleming reframes a personal and cultural...

..." (1997, 257). Food links the bodies to the earth, and to other individuals who share the same meal. It is therefore important, according to these criteria, that the body be constantly well fed, since starving it would, in effect, disrupt the community and efface the daily cultural memory of the community...

... is most sacred in sites relating to Muktijuddho—the defining event for national identity—and as such, national cinema as its cultural analogue is bound by its normative memorialization. Mookherjee ( 2015 ) argues that in Bangladesh the issue of wartime rape is neither invisible nor a public secret...

... studyingmemoryarealwaysgenderedB. othconservativaendleftist memoriesaboutheturbulen1t 970sarerootedin a masculinneotionofnationalism. Marginalizintghewomen'smovemendt uringthe 1970sandforgettingthegenderevdiolence againsftemaleactivistsduringtheOctobe6r,1976massacreenablems asculinneationalism. Cultural memory regarding...