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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
... all over the country between 1992 and 2003. Beginning this phase of work, I quickly realized that traveling exhibitions were most useful when gallery staff and faculty designed programming to "interrupt the curriculum" or create "pedagogical interventions" associated with the show's issues. Hosting...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 445–456.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., scholarly prose about these women—the kind of scholarship I’ve been comfortable writing for years—poetry would interrupt me and temporarily take over the page. Once I decided to accept this and keep the poetry and academic writing together, I needed a way to describe this methodology. In fact, although...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2007
... project, Gilman juxtaposes incompatible perspectives and political commitments that emerge in real-life interactions. The real-life interactions of mothers domiciled in prison is strikinglyand disturbingly-presented by Rickie Solinger in this art essay entitled, "Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 264–266.
Published: 01 September 2004
... contribution will be in the rapidly growing field commonly referred to as Afro-romance languages or Afro-Latin studies. Mosby's work interrupts the traditional Hispanic literary discourse from two distinct but parallel angles that intersect at corresponding points: gender and race. This book constitutes...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
... other poems to indicate the trajectory of Hahn's book. "The Flooding" includes the undemarcated voice of the father who both complements and interrupts the daughter's voice. In "Wisteria," apparently random words not attributed to any speaker recurrently break up the narrative. "Cuttings" derives its...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 163–164.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., Solinger has been curating and traveling exhibitions about these matters, aiming to "interrupt the curriculum." CATHYSONG is the author of PictureBride(Yale1983), FramelesWs indows, SquaresofLight(Norton 1988), SchoolFigure(sPittsburgh 1994), and TheLand ofBliss(Pittsburgh 2001). Her fifth collection...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 March 2006
... toward the end ofChinua Achebe's AnthillsoftheSavannah.As noted by John McLeod in BeginningPostcolonialism: Borrowing some terms from Homi Bhabha, we could describe the naming ceremony as a moment when the performative interrupts the pedagogical. The baby-naming ceremony has solemn and fixed protocols...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 30–56.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., I hope to generate discussion that resonates with the intellectual activism advocated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who argues that: [T]he historian and teacher ofliterature must critically "interrupt" each other, bring each other to crisis, in order to serve their constituencies; especially when...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 133–149.
Published: 01 September 2018
... polygyny, but she subverts it and “interrupt[s] business as usual” (Afzal-Khan 2004 , 15). She turns the restrictions and disadvantages of her gender-specific position into a space for struggle and resistance. Put in a subordinate position to the autocratic Omanhene, against whom she does not have much...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 201–207.
Published: 01 March 2014
... (Fall): 91-165. Sudbury, Julia. 2010. "Unpacking the Crisis: Women of Color, Globalization and the Prison Industrial Complex." In Interrupted Life,edited by Rickie Solinger, Paula Johnson, Martha Raimon, Tina Reynolds, and Ruby Tapia. Berkeley: University of California Press. Theidon, Kimberly. 2013...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 169–179.
Published: 01 April 2023
... ourselves “of the very many spaces where we are voiceless. Spaces we usually cannot enter, and which have to be, in terms of bell hooks, ‘interrupted, appropriated, and transformed through artistic and literary practice’” (Kilomba 2005 : 22). An act of becoming again, the narrator of our own history...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 40–67.
Published: 01 March 2004
..." will not heed her silent shout of"No!" (249). In the concluding section of the novel, Paradisecrystallizes this focus on healing by explicitly troping on the biblical themes of crucifixion, redemption, and resurrection. The Convent women interrupt the usual sequence of the crucifixion narrative by modeling...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
... this point: first, the frames of the maps are missing; second, the state borders in the maps are distorted and absent at times (figs. 1 and 2). The interruptions and variations of the borders in Peach's maps, as Liang contends, challenge Western imperial power by mobilizing, destabilizing, and disrupting...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 82–110.
Published: 01 September 2005
... student Nina takes pains to initiate her equally secondgeneration but less India-identified romantic interest Krishna into the pleasures of watching Bollywood classics. Krishna, however, is thoroughly bored and alienated by what he considers formulaic and threadbare plots interrupted by seven or eight...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of the study were reported in “Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood,” detailing how it expands on earlier research surrounding the adultification of Black boys. These results found that while Black boys are perceived as adults as early as ten, this starts as early as five for Black girls...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... The narrator describes exactly what a tourist is expected to see but instantly forget as part of the structure of terror. Scott finds Kincaid’s style of writing particularly suited to making these connections with her use of repetition interrupted by factual asides. The most striking example of Kincaid’s...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... this through exploring (a) the ways that Black women are situated in the digital world; (b) my pilot study focused on Black women's talk, attitudes, and belief systems as a part of identity creation; (c) and the ways that Black women utilize social media hashtags to create, sustain, and interrupt their public...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
Published: 01 October 2024
..., and religious presence that the United States has exercised in the region.” As readers, we first learn of the novel’s nonteleological storyline midway through the opening chapter, when Carmen interrupts the narrative flow to express her disorientation wrought by reading Frank’s diary, containing surprising...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 34–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Flamboyant interrupt white hetero- and homonormative ideas about space, belonging, and identity (see Bacchetta, El-Tayeb, and Haritaworn 2015 ; El-Tayeb 2011 ). Flamboyant proposed new ways to think through queerness and visibility by accepting fluidity and non-Western modes of sexuality within different...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of the light, or into geographies far from the Americas, the clerk interrupts from her stance on the shore. Looking out across the sea and backward in time to the region's past, the clerk prods the author to write from the clerk's point of view. These as-yet unpublished pieces articulate and explore a tension...
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