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The Feminization of Translation: Gender Politics in the Translation Controversy over Han, Kang’s The Vegetarian
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 193–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... transnationalism gender studies When Han, Kang’s The Vegetarian (2015) was announced as the winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, it was a highly significant event in the history of Korean literature. 1 Not only was it the first time a Korean author won the prestigious translation award...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Nancy Kang Abstract Ciguapas are mythical creatures, typically represented as naked, comely females with uniquely backward feet. Such anatomy renders their path virtually untraceable. Legends suggest they inhabit remote mountains and forests in the Dominican Republic, preying on men. This essay...
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Bruise Blue
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 408–409.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Nancy Kang [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 They had swarmed, expectant, in the back bleachers, ripping skirt and shirt her legs kicking up, catching wild hands bucking like a rodeo pony, prodded electric the frantic powdering of moth’s wings mouth...
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Two Birthdays Airport Checkpoints
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 77–80.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Miliann Kang Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 MILIANN KANG TwoBirthdays One from the womb, the other for a passport. April IO, 1936. Halmonimidwifed herself. Red stains between her legs, she could not walk to the tent with the red stain flapping above. So her daughter was not stamped...
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Bite Out Your Tongue: A Record of Ugly Youth
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 358–371.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Nancy Kang Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 bullying self-esteem Asian American coming of age body consciousness In the junior high yearbook, there is an innocuous photo of an overweight Asian American girl running after an errant rubber ball. The balls are standard gym...
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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
...Nancy Kang Sis was waiting at home, microwaving a hot pocket, orange oil seeping from the cross-cuts on the crust, and the cheese pooling alien and raw, hardening thickly under the shocked body and the timer sounding beep beep beep like North Charles Street snail-inching at rush hour...
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Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Mayumi Takada Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women . By Laura Hyun Yi Kang . Duke : Duke University Press , 2002 . x, 354 pp. Softcover, $22.95 . Copyright © 2005 by Smith College 2005 CompositionaSlubjectsE: n.fi.9urinA.s9ian/AmericaWnomen.By Laura Hyun...
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Writing Letters as Counter-Archiving: An Afro-Nordic Feminist Care Practice
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 180–203.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo; Jasmine Kelekay; Maimuna Abdullahi; Lena Sawyer Abstract Can counter-archiving be a form of social care? This essay is a dialogue on this topic among four Afro-Nordic feminists writing to each other in the form of letters over a five-month period during 2021. Using...
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Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Re-membering Home: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Refugee Student's REWRITING EXILE, REMAPPING EMPIRE, RE-MEMBERING HOME 169 attack on her on the boat during Japanese bombing in Part I, her fiance Chia-kang Shen's forced sex on the eve of Communist takeover of Beijing in Part II and later in the attic in Taipei in Part III, and the immigrant Chinese...
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Poster with the text “We will never forget Obiora,” referring to Eugene Eji...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. Poster with the text “We will never forget Obiora,” referring to Eugene Ejike Obiora who was killed by Trondheim police in 2006. Seen in the city center of Trondheim. Photo by Oda-Kange Diallo.
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Writing Rape, Trauma, and Transnationality onto the Female Body: Matrilineal Em-body-ment in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
.../AmericaWn omen (Kang 2002, 3), Laura Hyun YiKang's recent essay "Conjuring 'Comfort Women"' examines the multiple challenges the issue ofKorean comfort women poses, "of nomination, ofidentification, ofrepresentation, and ofknowledge production" (Kang 2003, 26). In order to disentangle identification from...
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Editor’s Introduction
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2021
...: Gender Politics in the Translation Controversy over Han, Kang’s The Vegetarian .” Godley recounts the story of the international kerfuffle triggered by the awarding of the Man Booker International Prize to Deborah Smith in 2016 for her English translation of The Vegetarian , a 2007 novel by Korean...
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Introduction: Transnational Trans(formations)
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 September 2010
... nationalistic as well as cultural expression-leads the author to ruminate about nationalism, colonialism, and the circulation oflndian and black women's bodies in local and global productions. As only poems can do, these by Miliann Kang, "TwoBirthdays" and "Airport Checkout," make palpable the scents, sounds...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 5–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the role of geopolitics and the ways in which gender and relations of power inform how women artists from the Global South are positioned at Mumok. Relatedly, Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo, Jasmine Kelekay, Maimuna Abdullahi, and Lena Sawyer’s In the Archives piece, “Counter-Archiving as Social Care,” draws...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of immigration in the United States. Solidarity and the possibility and problematics of shared struggle are explored in almost all of the essays. Readers encounter interviews with poets, scholars using poetry as methodology, and the urgent provocations in poems and creative writing by Ching-In Chen, Nancy Kang...
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Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the US-Mexico Borderlands
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
... logics that reduce women of color to pliant subjects of disciplinary labor controls (Kang 1997; Chang z000; Salzinger 2003). I draw upon these critical insights to consider the technologization and globalization of Mexican female labor in a different register. Where the term "technoOrientalism" refers...
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The Uses of Mourning: An Introduction
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
... possible. In the pattern and practice of feminist and queer of color mourning, cultural work sets the tone for the intimacy of engagement. This is where Nancy Kang’s reading in her article, “‘Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth’: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss...
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Editor’s Introduction
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... also recognize the consequences of not having traumatizing violations acknowledged and redressed. The effect of not having trauma acknowledged in the aftermath of violence is heart-wrenchingly evoked in Korean-Canadian Nancy Kang’s poem, “Bruise Blue.” This poem obliquely yet searingly narrates...
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Mel- han -cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 36–61.
Published: 01 September 2011
... a matter of something 'left behind"' (Kang 1998, 250). Her mother (and the Korean nation whose colonial past and national division are embodied through maternal representation) are denied full recuperation in Cha's own narrative. This move on Cha's part highlights the failures of Korean history to service...
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Mel- han -cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
... racial-ethnic difference as largely a matter of something ‘left behind’” (Kang 1998 , 250). Her mother (and the Korean nation whose colonial past and national division are embodied through maternal representation) are denied full recuperation in Cha’s own narrative. This move on Cha’s part...
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