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... power in their consciousness (12). The historical crossroads of the Latina's forsakenness is implanted in the title of Castillo's novel, SoFarfromGod.This is a phrase contained in the epithet of the novel. It is part of a sentence the author quotes from Porfirio Dfaz "So far from God-So near the United...

... while embracing a sense of community with God and with others. This intervention takes seriously a womanist ontology of isness, which articulates the coherent and unified relationship between the body and the soul by attending to the inextricable connection between emotional, spiritual, and physical...

... and fingers. People around me were trying to calm me down. My late mother was saying "it is God's will-now look after your other children." I have seen lots of miseries in Afghanistan. A few days before that, my aunt's daughter and one of my aunt's grandchildren were killed in a similar way.They were walking...

... with sound reaching out, bouncing back. totorobonsu moved through depths unseeable. darkness with no beginning and no end. though i am nothing, totorobonsu is now. here. boda remembered the whale god. boda remembered the whale was god. boda remembered the world was made by breathing. boda remembered...

... 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...

...Suheir Hammad FIRST WRITING SuheirHammad SINCE September 2001 r. there have been no words. i have not written one word. no poetry in the ashes south of canal street. no prose in the refrigerated trucks driving debris and dna. not one word. today is a week, and seven is of heavens, gods, science...

.../poetic sensibility that is sometimes also a burdensome responsibility. 2 With her consummately skilled poetic voice and her mystic inheritance, Clifton gives us a new experience of the story of Moses and the Burning Bush, of Mary's encounter with an impregnating God, and ofJesus' Easter ascension-showing...

... hot and too crowded outside. The bus driver says, shaking his head like an old, wise man, another boy of no more than twenty! Oh, the same thing, some big lorry going too fast, hit the scooter. Both dead on the spot. One old man, one young boy. It’s all karma, when yama , god of death calls you, you...

..., sputtering to a stop. It ended on a small rural track of road called, Conastee, a quarter of a mile stretch riddled with seven steeples. each pointing a path to God: First Baptist, Church of God, Deliverance of God, United Methodist, Reedy River Presbyterian, Conastee Fellowship Hall and McBeeUnited...

... humanity and the intangible and perplexing Great Imaginary that we associate with God and deities. The gender crises in Africa could be read in terms of a conflict reterritorialized into a double jeopardy in which women must "fight" against God and the deities and men-either simultaneously or one after...

... and reason gulfed one kiss from Gaines. God's wrath rests in the lusts of this wretch. I will forever thirst for Yella Gaines. A passion that scorches your heart and tortures your soul. His forged letter belched that he loved Annie more than he desired to be my husband. He would prey on her. Sweet Jesus...

..., could assume the identity of a friend, a woman, God, the homeland, or the fight for freedom. Likewise, the gallows becomes a symbol of the cruelty of the rulers and the martyrdom of the political activist; the mad lover is a rebel or revolutionary; and the image of waiting for the Beloved is extended...

... up on what the tone conveys. Most principally, religious expression is common in the broader SWANA region and linked to the individual and social act of thanking and praising God to acknowledge God’s presence and power. Religious expressions like inshallah (ان شاء الله [“if God wills...

... in African Literatures 35 , no. 3 : 112 – 32 . Sekyi Kobina . 1974 . The Blinkards . With an introduction by Langley J. A. . London : Heinemann . Shaw Bernard . 1932 . The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God . Edinburgh : R. R. Clarke . Shaw Bernard...

... and . . . and it’s vanity that makes us think there is.” “That’s because Western philosophy has clouded your judgment!” Azizi looked up to Almasi, who followed our words with his eyes like a ball boy following a tennis match. “God’s Truth is always alert and prepared. It can never be without pants!” he seethed...

... didn't know what was going on. Meanwhile the house was emptied out because everything was shaking. I ran out. A cement block fell on my head and I got a fracture on my body. Now, when I got out of the house I saw how outside everything had crumbled to the ground. I said, oh my God! My friends! I can't...

... of incarceration and punishment practices. Morrison has characterized Paradiseas the third book of a trilogy about love and its potential excesses, with Belovedfocusing on parental love, Jazzon romantic love, and Paradise on love of God (Malchow-Moller 2001). I argue that Morrison's trilogy about love also...

... versed in Arabic grammar, rhetoric, and prosody. Following in the footsteps of her father, she became deeply immersed in the dominant Qadriyya order of Sufi mysticism and developed a strong sense of the effects of innovation on the progress of the ideal of the sunna,or the straight path to God...

... God knows why to know. Some things need not be said, you replied. I heard the sea roar in your bones. Of course, you added softly, under your breath. [Meridians:feminism, race, transnationalism 2008, vol.8, no. 2, pp. 49-63] © 2008 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 49 Smoke poured from your...