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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to retrieve what remains dormant in critical feminist theorizations of violence against women. Using a cross-genre form, a secret collection of memories that includes elements of hauntology, this essay exposes some of the cracks and fissures in feminist theorizing on sexual violence, migration, and the figure...
View articletitled, Making Way for Ghosts and M others : Storied Socialities, Sexual Violence, and the <span class="search-highlight">Figure</span> of the Furtive Migrant
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 38–68.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., the monument, which was commissioned by a national committee, commemorates the historical moment ofJamaica's emancipation from slavery. It features an eleven-foot nude male and ten-foot nude female standing on a dome in a pool of water. Under the figures is the message, ''None but ourselves can free our minds...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 374–398.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Cherise Fung Abstract In a post-9/11 world, the figure of the female suicide bomber has emerged as a contentious figure in global discourse. Through the character of Saraswathi, Nayomi Munaweera’s novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012) foregrounds how the construction of this subaltern figure...
View articletitled, In the Name of Sovereignty: Rethinking the “Tiger Bitch” and the Terrorist Bomber in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012)
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 26–52.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Claire Raymond Abstract This essay considers the ethically complex figure of the feminine witness to suffering by thinking in-depth about photographer and installation artist Carrie Mae Weems's installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (Weems 1995–1996). The essay is concerned...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Aimee Carrillo Rowe Abstract This paper explores the temporal structures that shape Chicana subjectivity. The historical figure, La Malinche, is often imagined through acts of betrayal as “La Vendida” (literally the one who has been sold). I propose an alternative reading—that of “La Devuelta...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 28–49.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., or flatten. Tubman is often discussed as an exceptional but lone figure or in ways that animate stereotypes of black women's unparalleled strength. Her life's work is also often fragmented, meaning that her varied activism and different forms of coalition-building remain undertheorized and under-recognized...
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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 (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... images of women from the global south. It also examines the figure of the pan-Arab feminist Huda Shaarawi, who in 1919 organized the largest women's anti-British demonstration, and became in 1935 the vice president of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, and in 1945...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
... story about the way Muslim lives are shaped by the discourses and representations through which they are figured and apprehended. The author explores the way that this archive of memes figures Muslims as a “measurable type”—whereby they are profiled into highly fraught categories, like “terrorist...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 19–52.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in common. Ultimately, the goal of this essay is to clearly understand the sociopolitical platform of hip-hop feminists and how that platform both impacts and figures into the history and future of black American feminist thought. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 WHITNEY A. PEOPLES...
View articletitled, “Under Construction”: Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 64–93.
Published: 01 March 2008
... figure of the Hindu-Muslim union that is visible, and, in fact, audible throughout. Two of the songs in Fire come from Bombay (1995) and reference that film's allegory of an inclusive, secular India. In contrast to other critics who focus only on Fire's reception, I read scenes such as the ones featuring...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to the domestic is configured and reconfigured in narratives of the Pakistani ulema and narratives of prominent progressive Muslim activists in Canada. My analysis of these narratives reveals the anxieties that surface and crystallize around the figure of the Al-Huda woman when analyzed against the hegemonies...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
... invisible in national politics because of their relegation to the domestic realm, their presence as historical agents and patriots in the body politic of the nation is made possible through the figure of a patriotic mother. Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 SELINAMAKANA Motherhoodas Activismin...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 April 2020
... exploitative colonial economy. Jamaica Kincaid’s essays in A Small Place dramatize the competing narratives of vacation as happiness object and misery-causing activities within the framework of the structure of terror. Many critics read differences of race and class developed through figures of the tourist...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 463–483.
Published: 01 December 2020
... often warp Tubman’s contributions by presenting her as an exceptional but lone figure, by animating stereotypes of Black women’s unparalleled strength, or by fragmenting her activism via single-issue lenses. Critics also draw on maternal or salvific frames to soften Tubman’s militancy or enfold her...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Emily Lederman Abstract This essay argues that a queer archive in Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son (2007) recovers the historical Mexican figure Nahui Olin and allows the trans protagonist to navigate less tangible inheritances, including a destructive romantic legacy and a complex Mexican American...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that introduced audiences to a martyr-like maternal figure: the madre abnegada (selfless mother). This essay examines the origin, diffusion, and popularity of this uniquely Mexican subjectivity. Drawing on poetry, song lyrics, movie reviews, and an analysis of the film Mi madrecita (1940), the essay argues...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to digest loss but from external impediments that forcibly prescribe her inconsolability. This plight delineates Nig as a figure of unweepable wounds unwept in a grievous herstory. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 African American women’s literature elegy girlhood...
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 63–88.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Bright Alozie Abstract Mbari (or mbari houses ), found in some parts of eastern Nigeria, are ritual houses filled with colorful tableaux of life-sized painted figures representing Igbo beliefs and deities, especially Ala, the Earth Mother/goddess. While many Mbari structures and art focus...
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View articletitled, Between the Sensuous and Sacred: A Postcolonial Reading of African Spirituality, Sexuality, and “The Erotic” Through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 394–413.
Published: 01 October 2019
... expanding U.S. interventionism in Central America. All documents are from the Alliance Against Women’s Oppression Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Figure 1. Somos Hermanas delegation to Nicaragua, 1986. Creator: unknown. Alliance Against Women’s Oppression Records, Sophia Smith...
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