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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Eman Ghanayem Abstract Part memoir, part theoretical reflection, this essay offers one answer to the question “How do Palestinians grieve?” In this narration of the author’s mother’s relationship to death, her multiple displacements, and her plan for her life, the term proactive grief is used...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 62–82.
Published: 01 September 2009
... subscribed to the belief that those with a “drop of African blood” were rendered less intelligent and creatively inept. Her crowning achievement was The Death of Cleopatra (1876) that was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876 to great acclaim. This paper offers critical insights...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 26. “Proper Child Spacing Prevents Infant Deaths,” a Birth Control Federation of America poster illustrating the impact of birth control in reducing infant mortality, undated. Florence Rose Papers, SSC.
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Himika Bhattacharya Abstract This article traces the memories surrounding the death of an adivasi woman, Shalini, from the northwestern Himalayan (adivasi/tribal) region of Lahaul, India. By focusing on how the memories of her death evolve in both official and community discourses, this article...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Patricia Ann Lott Abstract This essay analyzes Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) as a book of lamentations for its bereaved black subject’s mother loss, social death, and prematurely ended girlhood. More specifically, it examines a daughter’s devastation over her natal alienation, violent...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
...K. Melchor Quick Hall Abstract In this essay the author describes how she orchestrates her own death for her mother’s survival and begins to travel with her dying grandmother. She shares lessons from her grandmother’s elongated, memory-less, graceless dying through a series of vignettes. While her...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 141–162.
Published: 01 September 2009
... discourses. While most critics read Cliff's reclamation of matrilineal history and resistance as unabashedly celebratory, I argue that the novels, especially No Telephone to Heaven , offer a more ambivalent perspective through the construction of the female body as a site of death. The imbrications...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 24. “Abortion Facts,” a Birth Control Federation of America poster promoting contraception as a means of preventing abortion-related deaths, undated. Florence Rose Papers, SSC.
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
... but also the living, tending to immaterial energies that shift the fecund terrain of both life and death. 29 To further learn about the work that New York Boricua Resistance is doing, you can find them on Instagram at @nyboricuaresistance. 30 To further learn about the work that Comida Pal...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Christen Anne Smith Abstract Black woman, scholar, and visionary—Beatriz Nascimento was a critical figure in Brazil's Black Movement until her untimely death in 1995. Although she published only a handful of articles before she died and left only a few other recorded thoughts, her ideas about...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of Sikh subject-formation in a pre-Partition border community, and close in, like the novel itself, on a key moment of embodied violence: the cutting up and reassembling of a woman's body, whose manner of death is later reconstructed by her male family members, in the presence of a female family member...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... “for the normalization of exclusionary practices,” which the Nijmegen school calls a process of “B/Ordering as Ordering and Othering .” Second, it positions porteadoras ’ deaths and risks to their health within the political and the religious order; Muslim Moroccan women operate within strong religious and cultural...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
... on death and afterlives in Turkey in 2016, I spent several days in the gasilhanes of the Zincirlikuyu and Karacaahmet cemeteries. There I met five corpse washers. Corpse washers in Turkey are hired by municipalities, elderly care centers, and the Presidency of Religious Affairs. A divinity school degree...
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Published: 01 October 2022
Administration. b) Record for the death of Ada Peters Brown. Courtesy of FamilySearch Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915, citing Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. c) Unnamed young African American woman, most likely Laura Tucker
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in the unknown with others whom you have yet to know. This boat: pregnant with as many dead as living under the sentence of death” (6). In characterizing the descent into loss, grief, and mourning as entrance into a womb abyss, Glissant demonstrated that, though a place of endings, the abyss was also a portal...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 290–299.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the current social landscape. Myincorporation of #BlackLivesMatter into the classroom stemmed from a weeklong discussion of the murder ofTrayvon Martin in February 2012. The majority of my students had not paid much attention to Martin's death and those that knew of his death heard about it through the hash...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the funereal space with the echo of Hagar, the missing space between them. Song of Solomon begins and ends with collective witnessing amid death. The question of mercy, in Morrison’s iteration, is the distance between thresholds, the boundary marker delineating the grieved, lost, and retrieved...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... lens that we abandon the state narratives about Gaines and Bland’s resistance, who they were as Black women and mothers, and, most important, their cause and manner of death. We lay their memories in the vast graveyard of this country’s long and brutal history of lynching, where they can be counted...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 116–122.
Published: 01 March 2008
... those links are breaking, and voices of great power are dwindling into silence around us. Death is becoming an occupational hazard of black female intellectual [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2008, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. n6-122] © 2008 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 116 life. Blackwomen...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., I am a sister" (Keller 1997, 20). On the one hand, Induk's verbal defense saves her temporarily from the soldiers' sexual attention: "The men left her stall quickly, some crying, most angrily joining the line for the woman next door" (20). Through her brutal death, her body symbolically being...
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