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In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
... ofinterrogating or "dismembering" representations of whiteness that Western society privileges (Morrison 1970/1994, 20). 1 This complexand often cited depiction of black girlhood has become a foundational and well-researched moment in studies of visual culture and blackness in twentieth-century African American...
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Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Kenly Brown; Lashon Daley; Derrika Hunt Abstract This article examines Black/Girlhood Imaginary, a transdisciplinary methodology that merges performance studies, Black studies, and education to research and theorize the capacious archives of Black girlhood. What the authors term Black/Girlhood...
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Beyond Tragedy: Black Girlhood in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women and Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Press . Daley Lashon . 2021 . “ Coming of (R) Age: A New Genre for Contemporary Narratives about Black Girlhood .” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46 , no. 4 : 1035 – 56 . Danticat Edwidge , and Trouillot Evelyne . 2005 . “ Evelyne Trouillot by Edwidge...
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Beyond Black Girlhood: An Underground Railroad to Nowhere
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
... chattel slavery and thus forced to come of age before the bulk of the novel, her experience cannot be constrained to a genre defined primarily by Eurocentric traditions and frames of reference. In this way, “girlhood” has never been a possibility for her, making the novel’s ambiguous ending a clearer Afro...
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The Continual Search for Sisterhood: Narcissism, Projection, and Intersubjective Disruptions in Toni Morrison's Sula and Feminist Communities
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 28–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and Sula and the subsequent damage done to their relationship as a result of the various factors inhibiting their ability to form a relationship based on intersubjectivity. Bonded together and in many ways fused in girlhood, Sula and Nel cannot maintain a friendship beyond adolescence because of the ways...
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Unweepable Wounds Unwept: Mother Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig
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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 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2022
... not just rectifying old narratives, we’re writing our own narratives, fully within ourselves.” In her Essay “Beyond Tragedy: Black Girlhood in Marlon James’s Book of Night Women and Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme ,” Annette Joseph-Gabriel exemplifies Danticat’s perspective with her analysis...
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Editor's Introduction
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., and the power of history. The essay, "In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's TheBluestEyeand Jamaica Kincaid's AnnieJohn," by Sam Vasquez, is a revisionist text that places these novels-traditionally seen as representative literature by the most critically acclaimed...
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Saving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2018
... violence from male aggressors. Yet through its reliance on certain restrictions, gendered and otherwise, the portrait of the vulnerable girl that campaigners outline inadvertently prompts disidentifications as well. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 #BBOG Bring Back Our Girls girlhood hawkers...
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Speaking for Ourselves: Reclaiming, Redesigning, and Reimagining Research on Black Women’s Health
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 219–229.
Published: 01 March 2018
... a "discourse of risk" (Lupton 1993; Tuck 2009) for example, childhood obesity, school bullying, "girl fighting," substance use, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections. LeConte lovingly pushes us to look to and learn from Black Feminisms and Black Girlhood Studies in our work in Black girls' health...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Girlhood: An Underground Railroad to Nowhere” argues that Cora, a protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel The Underground Railroad , is a character whose story illustrates “the ways Speculative fiction allows Black writers to inject narratives regarding allegories of freedom and liberation...
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Inquisitor and Insurgent: Black Woman with Pencil, Sharpened
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 214–221.
Published: 01 September 2006
...: Jimmy's Hog Heaven, Dent's Undertaking Establishment, The Silver Moon INQUISITOR AND INSURGENT 215 Cafe, Johnson's Nursery, Miss Mable's Frozen Pies and Custards. Pencils got me going about words and the work worlds of human beings. Pencils in my girlhood were tiny handheld billboards; they were jumbo...
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Daughtersong Diaspore
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 302–306.
Published: 01 October 2022
... vespers early into dawn Forget ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Gattaran fragrant green girlhood of my mother where I wanted just one moment of grace with her but now, grief is my gold, and my ghost, and my gravity Hangin filled with hummingbirds; halika, in the chest, homing...
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Of Monsters and Mothers: Filipina American Identity and Maternal Legacies in Lynda J. Barry's One Hundred Demons
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2004
... MELINDA LUISA DE JESUS Girlness Girlnessp, ublished 25 August 2000 at <Salon.com>, details Barry's struggle to understand her childhood gendering as a tomboy by default-a thwarted "girlish girl." These twenty panels offer a deft deconstruction of Filipina American girlhood as mitigated through class...
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“Where Do You Go When You Go Quiet?”: The Ethics of Interiority in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Beyoncé
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 184–204.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and what she might make of them. Buttressed by the power of the sovereign interior, Walker’s southern daughters move from constraining girlhoods to fuller, more capacious womanhoods; they become better equipped to navigate the patriarchy and racism informing their intimate relationships. Scholars can...
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“To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free . . .”: Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and across the Digital Landscape
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of these iterations of Black girlhood and Black womanhood, I have found myself in between curating parts and pieces of their work that look like me, holding them close and engaging with them transparently. For this reason, as a Black woman who was once a Black girl, I'm moved to explore my personal lived experiences...
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Queering the Chicana/o Archive in Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Barthes Roland . 1979 . Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography . New York : Macmillan . Cantú Norma Elia . 1995 . Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . Chávez Denise . 2004 . The Last of the Menu Girls . Reprint...
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Revisiting the Second Wave: In Conversation with Mary King
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 102–116.
Published: 01 March 2007
... not aim for "a second-level career" because she is a woman; from girlhood on she should recognize that, if she is also going to be a wife and mother, she will not be able to give as much to her work as she would if single. That is, she should not feel that she cannot aspire to directing the laboratory...
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Keeping Up Appearances, Getting Fed Up: The Embodiment of Strength among African American Women
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 104–123.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to be "strong." It was modeled by mothers and female relatives, and during the interviewees' upbringings, few, if any, other public responses were tolerated. As forty-six-year-old Traci3recalls from her girlhood: Even from, just say a young girl. It's just something you just learn. Youtry to instill in yourself...
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Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
... LenaPalaciosis an assistant professor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Lena's research and teaching focuses on critical prison studies, Black, Indigenous, Chicana/Latina queer and trans feminisms, girls' and girlhood studies, transformative justice, media...
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