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Fire 's Queer Anti-Communalism
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 64–93.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Alexandra Lynn Barron Abstract While many critics have pointed out how Fire's (1996) reception reveais much about the Hindutva agenda of fundamentalists and their use of women as symbols for the nation, no one has traced the critique of fundamentalism embedded in the film itself in the haunting...
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Fire and Sand
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 53–64.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., and he doesn't have to drink that much before his eyes become bullets, his fists the curled hands of a boxer, and our living room the ring of Monday Night Wrestling. "It's fire from hell," my mother says about the liquor. I believe it. One time I went into the yard to look for a ball I had lost...
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Fire Flies
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 176.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Odilia Rivera Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 FIRE FLIES OdiliaRivera Clouds shift over deaf ears boys rotten from the start. sirens in the distance plague us always we cannot listen Listless, dangerous, and strange teach the same lesson. Bridges meet and separate listen...
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Smoke Is Everywhere, but No One Is Running: A Kenyan Activist Speaks Out
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2018
... girls reproductive health menstruation There is fire on the mountain, and nobody seems to be on the run. Oh there is fire on the mountain top, and no one is’ah running. —Asa, “Fire on the Mountain” ( 2008 ) A fire breaks out in a dorm at Moi Girls High School in Nairobi. A dorm...
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Body, Bones, and All
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 84–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
... devises coping mechanisms: often the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. The unbearable burden of a life abused (and its grim ending) can be made bearable only through recourse in the unreal and the magical. A few villages down, an old woman sits beside the fire. Having grown into her old...
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Selected Poems
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 84–93.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-desenho do auto-retrato meu. 90 MERIDIANS 14:r From the Fire that Burns Inside Me Yes, I bring fire, the other, not the one that pleasures you. Yes, it does burn, it is a ravenous flame that melts the tip of your tool burning to ashes the desire-drawing that you make of me. Yes,I bring fire, the other...
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Elegy for Mary Turner
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... it The fecund coastal plains Dirt in every crease, live oaks, resurrection ferns, rain showers, and heat Valle d’Aosta Toothy rodents, deer flies, may flies, dragonflies, oily roaches, lacy-winged mosquitos, swarming fire ants, biting in mysterious union like one organism Yellow fields, ruts...
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The Garden Hyderabad Notebook Cantata for a Riderless Horse (with Sitar and Flute)
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... They call it in the family. Byits roots Grandfather made a fire Tossed in her poems Poor things, penned in black ink She had folded them Into finicky squares [Meridians:feminismr,acet,ransnationalism2010, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-5] © 2010 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 1 Buried them In her jewel case...
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Elegy for My Father Rites of Sense Black River, Walled Garden Pitfire
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of earth dug with your hands where sweet beans grow coiled and raw. Taught me to fire a copper pan, starch and fold a sari, raise a rusty needle, stitch my woman's breath into the mute amazement of sentences. MEENA ALEXANDER RITES OF SENSE 55 MEENA ALEXANDER BlackRiver,WalledGarden The garden of my...
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Magic Tricks: The Politics of Memory, State, and Tribe in Lahaul, India
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
... patriarchies. Introduction This article traces how the death of one woman, Shalini, in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh, India is remembered across official and community discourses. In the winter of 2005, Shalini's husband set her on fire during an argument at their home in Keylong. She succumbed to her injuries less...
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The Making Is the Story: Sovereignty, Sharing, and the Seven Sisters Cloak
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 89–125.
Published: 01 April 2025
.... Variations of these stories exist across the Kulin Nation. We tell them here with the permission of our Elders to represent them in the right ways. Stories in the Kulin Nation tell us about how Waa the Crow robbed the Seven Sisters of their secret of how to make fire, thus bringing the skill...
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Transatlantic Time Travel Poem in Five Channels : after M. NourbeSe Philip & Kerry James Marshall, “Voyager”
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 521–524.
Published: 01 March 2017
... an 0 san oya see sea nah C C ona yemayayemojayemayayemojayemayayemojayemayayemojayemayayemojayemayayemo 4. burymein afreeland,a,greenland,a,graceland "'Amazing' 'grace' 1JA 1N] how'sweet'hesound " ona means full of grace ona means grain ona means wave ona means fire ona means ave,Portsmouth ave...
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How to Write about Hawai'i: A Guide to the Handling of Indigenous Characters, Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's “How to Write About Africa”
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 157–160.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., the aristocratic resort where all the action takes place, and the muscular, dark-eyed boys who tend to the grounds. Leave out our volcanoes; people are too easily scared by fire. Leaveout our rain; it tends to deflate tourists. Stick with the romantic and twee descriptions of our island sunrises and sunsets...
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A Light for a Light: Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
... scholars and artists through recourse to grief and mourning, this essay interrogates how loss binds us in our efforts to carry out wake work by enabling collective energy to be reconstituted by sorrow. The artists presented here turn to fire, ash, water, salt, bodily tears, and other elements of the earth...
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First Writing Since
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 149–154.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and dna. not one word. today is a week, and seven is of heavens, gods, science. evident out my kitchen window is an abstract reality. sky where once was steel. smoke where once was flesh. fire in the city air and i feared for my sister’s life in a way never before. and then, and now, i...
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First Writing Since
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 254–258.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... evident out my kitchen window is an abstract reality. sky where once was steel. smoke where once was flesh. fire in the city air and i feared for my sister's life in a way never before. and then, and now, i fear for the rest of us. first, please god, let it be a mistake, the pilot's heart failed...
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Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to assist older and poorer women in the parish, sũsũ Syondũrĩa lived alone in the hut that was the kitchen. One of my later memories of this rejection of care revolves around passing by their home with my younger cousins and finding our sũsũ Syondũrĩa sitting by the open fire on a chilly July morning...
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Memoriam
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 3–4.
Published: 01 March 2003
... cared enough to break your heart and genius open give a piece n even though our song not so fierce or fire we carry your notes in that beauty burn a flame that do not die 4 RUTH FORMAN Copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press 2003 ...
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Kali-fornia
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 72–74.
Published: 01 March 2002
... You have your listlessness Its dull ache Youhave your fine breasts Your hard maids You have your strong presences Better than absences Better than abscesses You have your coital fire Behold, Great Mother Your black rope of hair Behold: breasts, crotch Scrotum, harbor, sun Your poems will write...
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In Blocks of Light, She Calls Back
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 246–247.
Published: 01 April 2021
... grasped air. Cave-like, a lash-fringed darkness they would handle it, she and her little sister, this city life. Lit fire-flowers in the loamy sky every July 4, visited the inner harbor, cookouts in backyard squares, watched the matte black animate, sentient, lip-gloss sticky stars, how...
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