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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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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
... steps away from the predatory archetype, formulating a theory of women’s loss and mourning through the motif of “forward backwardness” epitomized by the ciguapa’s feet. Using selections from the work of Dominican American poet Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932), the author outlines the feminist paradigm...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sandra Ruiz Abstract How does loss tear a hole in the world and produce a collective remaking of a new social order in which grief-work is not contained singularly but is a process done in feminist, queer, and Black and Brown ensemble? Interested in how we deliberately incorporate loss...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Imaginary is a multivalent prism that aids in the recovery of the losses, the undermining, the layered violence, the joys, and the embodied experiences of Black girls. As a methodology, Black/Girlhood Imaginary weaves both the fullness and fissures of Black girlhoods, opening up the space for Black girls...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
... mother accepts the author’s proclamation of her own death, the mother mourns the simultaneous loss of her daughter and mother. In the midst of her mother’s suffering, the author shares the joyous mourning of her travels with Grandma. The other night, Grandma was with a puppy. I heard her saying we...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... necropolitics and the ensuing historical legacy of Black maternal grief through political activism. It examines, through an engagement with global Black scholars through political theory, mothering theories, and depth psychology, how they manage to navigate maternal grief and loss into political action, thereby...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in theories of diaspora. Black women’s writing practices illuminate how they shift diaspora from a concept of separation, loss and exile into one that includes desire, communion and possibility. Engaging black women’s autobiography and black feminist thinking, the essay sets forth an assortment of letters...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2018
... that framed gender as the primary axis of oppression and white women as the primary representatives of feminism. Rather than welcoming this critique as a necessary tool for crafting a more capacious feminist practice, many white feminists perceived the emergence of intersectionality as a loss of power...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the multiple dimensions of “return” in the context of physical displacement, loss, cultural erasure, and diaspora negotiations of belonging and exile. Identifying return as both a right and as a metaphor, it looks at gendered realities of Palestinian and Palestinian-American experience, critiques the dichotomy...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
... medical neglect, sexual abuse, lack of reproductive control, loss of parental rights, and the devastating effects of isolation, that manifest in particular ways in women’s prisons. Advocates who are challenging conditions inside increasingly are connecting with activists across the globe and organizing...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... creates a particular kind of black feminist surrogation, that is, an embodied performance that recycles palpable forms of black female sociopolitical grief and loss as well as spirited dissent and dissonance. Their combined efforts mark a new era of protest singing that sonically resists, revises...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 36–61.
Published: 01 September 2011
... relationship between Cha's narrator and her mother, a sense of shared loss and cultural grief can become the basis around which collective identity might be organized. JENNIFER CHO Mel-han-cholias PoliticalPractice in TheresaHakI<yungCha'sDictee Abstract Drawinfgrom theoriesofmelancholfyrom DavidEng...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 246–247.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Nancy Kang Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 gun violence siblings crime loss technology mourning witnessing Cave-like, a lash-fringed darkness they would handle it, she and her little sister, this city life. Lit fire-flowers in the loamy sky every July 4, visited...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
... soprano: ‘I hear you’” (316–17). This call-and-response exchange is a circular framing of loss that includes the beloved at its center, an up-down-high-low that modulates between proximity and distance. Reba and Pilate must fill the space of mourning with the replication of Hagar’s voice. They enter...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and Society 25 , no. 4 : 1275 – 81 . Eng David L. , and Kazanjian David . 2003 . Loss: The Politics of Mourning . Berkeley : University of California Press . Erikson Kai . 1995 . “ Notes on Trauma and Community .” In Trauma: Explorations in Memory , edited by Caruth...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 September 2004
... as a testimony of the complexity of memory. With this essay, I elaborate on the ways that migration, loss, and trauma are central themes that inform Alvarez's creative and personal process, exploring memory and recontextualizing history. My analysis reveals more than the dissonances experienced by children who...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... Should I have seeded/ our heads with that home's heat, fertilized/ our scalps with oil Kamata's story asks us to shift to new ground, reflecting as it does on 9/n/01 by recasting loss in global terms, as a young Japanese woman grieves the loss of her sister in a similar bombing in Luxor, Egypt...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
... . Love Heather . 2007 . Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Lemus Felicia Luna . 2003 . Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Lemus Felicia Luna . 2007 . Like Son...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
... members and friends immensely at a moment of loss and grief. Focusing on the practical matter at hand, the corpse washers guide the bereaved and grieving through the steps of the ritual washing. They may work in pairs to complete the ritual quickly to keep up with the incoming bodies, which sometimes...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 281–282.
Published: 01 March 2002
... anniversary, hereby issue this resolution. Expressing our sympathy with the tragic loss of life on September n, 2001. Declaring our hope that the perpetrators will be brought to justice. Being ever mindful of the historic erosion of civil liberties by our government in communities of color, both here...
