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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 September 2005
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Vanita Reddy Abstract This essay examines Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri's literary engagements with cosmopolitan Indian beauty and style in her short stories “Sexy” and “Interpreter of Maladies” (2003). It situates these engagements as part of a transnational beauty assemblage...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and the United States, and between film analysis and the dance studio, the author examines the cultural politics of the romanticized and historical Indian dancer—the mythical courtesan. The author argues that the mythical courtesan was called into existence through film cultures in the early twentieth century...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and perpetuate a tradition of colonial literature that establishes Martinican women of color, like the island itself, as both sexually available to the colonizer and resigned to exploitation and abandonment. Through an analysis of two French West Indian women writers—Mayotte Capécia and Suzanne Césaire, both...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Odessa D. Despot Abstract This study contributes to the literature on Asian Indian women who have emigrated from Trinidad and Guyana (Indo-Caribbeans) and who are now residing in the US. Using a qualitative design comprised of four ninety-minute interviews, I explored the experiences of immigration...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 219–254.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the discourse of rights was mobilized from very different contexts to very different ends by various constituencies of Indian men, women, and their allies, this essay modestly opens the conflicts surrounding gender politics and women’s rights in Native sovereignty movements. I hope to provide a forum...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Sreyoshi Sarkar Abstract Women living in the South Asian conflict zone of Kashmir have been represented by mainstream media and film as mainly victims of the Indian state power’s political and sexual violence, as protestors who are supporting their men’s insurgency in Kashmir, or as aligned...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the patriarchal narratives that undergird the judicial backlash against Section 498A, arguing that they reflect a modern incarnation of the “crisis” discourses that have characterized state responses to women's right claims. I contend that Indian patriarchies are being recast in law through the construction...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 310–339.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura, this region represents India’s amorphous shadowlands in arbitrary political markings between the mainland and the off-centered northeastern periphery. These satellite states have been subjected to the neocolonial governance of the Indian government and its...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
... singing for over four decades, and is known as the ideal voice of Indian femininity. The Lagaan theme song juxtaposes a saccharine, ultra-feminine Mangeshkaresque voice with two female choruses—one sensual and aggressive, the other light and airy. These varied female voices embody a range of sexual...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 September 2010
... these Carnival-related performances in relationship to the colonial and national histories of the circulation of Indian and black women's bodies in Trinidad and Tobago, asking what is at stake in these occupations of genre, form, and performative presence in the latest global scenes of late capitalism (where...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 127–161.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Joanne Barker Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 JOANNE BARKER Gender,Sovereignty,and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism In 1876, the Canadian Parliament amended the 1868 Indian Act to establish patrilineality as the criterion for determining Indian status and all...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 58–81.
Published: 01 September 2005
... refer to the large numbers oflndians (known as NonResident Indians or NRis) living in the diaspora.' The term also signifies the social and cultural transformation India has undergone since 1991, when a new economic policy eliminated the bureaucratic red tape restricting imports and foreign investment...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 157–178.
Published: 01 September 2000
... dedication that highlightthe need for this broader definition: Yes,we are between two fires, the Red and the White. Our Caucasian brothers criticize us as a shiftless class, while the Indians disown us as abandoning our own race. We are maligned and traduced as no one but we of the despised "breeds" can know...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 95–127.
Published: 01 March 2001
... between Anna Mani's perceptions of women in science in India and the lived reality of the majority of Indian women could not have been more acute. In 1913, the year of Mani's birth, the literacy rate for women in India stood at less than 1percent. The total number of women enrolled in colleges...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 82–110.
Published: 01 September 2005
... that "the nationalist genie, never perfectly contained in the bottle of the territorial state, is now itself diasporic" (1996, 160-61). The role ofBollywood in the U.S. diaspora is being debated and disputed widely these days;' even "off-Bollywood" Indian cinema has taken up the topic. A scene from Piyush Dinkar...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 March 2002
... as the emancipator of the highly troped "oppressed Indian womanhood," and erasure from the collective memory and official history of the Indian society of her origin. Her Marathi travelogue UnitedStateschiLokasthitiani Pravasavritta(ThePeopleos ftheUnitedStates,henceforth USLP)p, ublished in Bombay in 1889,1...
