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Mahadevi Chastens Her Lover, Lord of Mallika
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 153.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Reetika Vazirani Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 MAHADEVI CHASTENS LORD OF MALLIKA ReetikaVazirani HER LOVER, you're calling my pager goes I excuse myselffrom my prying in-laws' bill collector give magazine ads to my sister admirethe coral manicurein yourmiraclesmile...
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What a Fisher Girl Said in Defense of Absence, Her Lover
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 155.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Reetika Vazirani Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 WHAT A FISHER GIRL SAID IN DEFENSE OF ABSENCE, HER LOVER ReetikaVazirani at least he kept his promise he said I'll make you rich even though he left when I close my eyes I'm hitched to his strides he's shown me my house...
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“All That You Can’t Leave Behind”: Surrogation and Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and “dough” of Jay-Z at the expense of showcasing Knowles (who, in one famous frame of the video, tugs longingly at her lover’s belt buckle while writhing on her knees). Dismissing the album for “Déjà vu’s” seemingly retrograde gender politics would, however, miss the point of the song entirely, since...
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Transnational Community in Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the lovers' unwillingness and inability to see each other in relation to their respective communities. However, the character of Soledad offers an alternative model for recognizing the self's relationship to the community in the service of a progressive political agenda. Self and community are linked...
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“All That You Can't Leave Behind”: Black Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... with lovers and friends in order to gain some kind of personal agency. Both of the aforementioned singers owe much (if not nearly everything) to the inroads made by the woman oft-regarded as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," Mary J. Blige, who, it seems, is the iconic "sister-spirit" of sorts, hovering...
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a language outside
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Shana Bulhan i am still dreaming, stealing, you an other my lover, my paayal परसों मैं तुम्हारी कम्बल को चोर लूंगी drenched in no red we will make our home as if a drought of beads can be called that and i hope they never ask me because मैंने कल तीन घंटे के लिए रोया...
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“Artistic Expression Was Flowing Everywhere”: Alison Mills and Ntozake Shange, Black Bohemian Feminists in the 1970s
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 205–235.
Published: 01 March 2004
... to define themselves as artists. Their characters, passionate lovers of black men, criticize sexist black male artists; yet they also reject elements of feminism. While they desire personal freedom, they also view themselves as part of a collective struggle for equality. These authors examine the heart...
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Fire 's Queer Anti-Communalism
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 64–93.
Published: 01 March 2008
...),which depicts male same-sex desire, caused comparatively ALEXANDRA LYNN BARRON FIRE'S QUEER ANTI-COMMUNALISM 65 little controversy upon its release in India. 1 In contrast, Girlfriend(2004), a film about two women who are lovers, raised fundamentalist ire yet again. The Sena attacked theaters showing...
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Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... sais.” All translations of Capécia’s text are my own. 11 Combette’s lover in real life wrote a three-hundred-page religious tract detailing why their interracial romance could never be. In the novel his analogue contents himself with a letter in which he explains to her that their love “must...
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Revolutionary Vision: Black Women Writers, Black Nationalist Ideology, and Interracial Sexuality
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 March 2002
... weighty creature he harbored in the hollow of the groin (Marshall 1969, 88). Merle, a well-educated and well-traveled mixed-race native of the island, becomes the exotically stereotyped black lover in whose arms Saul can find escape and consolation. Whether or not he truly loves Merle, Saul and she...
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The Preference of Vishnu
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 154.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Reetika Vazirani Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 THE PREFERENCE ReetikaVazirani OF VISHNU now to change a cloak a ring who am I Arjuna's charioteer? discus lotus mace or conch? do I drive whose wheels? but don't call me lover of Mallika seen in Shiva's palm sometimes loving...
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Queering the Chicana/o Archive in Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
... for Frank, despite her privileged state. 14 Frank is suspicious of his lover’s politics, as he is suspicious of Nahui Olin, in part because he believes they come from a position of privilege. In her reading of the novel, Julie Avril Minich ( 2014 , 81) has argued that Nathalie, who the novel hints...
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Engendering Protest and Rethinking “Azadi” in Kashmir in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
... an adult, asks Ghazala (54:22 mark): Haider: Would you really have shot yourself that day? Ghazala: Do you doubt me? Haider: No. I’m sure. You wouldn’t have. Ghazala: Was there any other reason for me to live besides you? Or is there? These lines enable a double mourning for both lover...
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Sara Baartman and the “Inclusive Exclusions” of Neoliberalism
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 212–237.
Published: 01 March 2013
... movement from servant to the former two to a lover-scientific object to the latter, a movement that might strike us as odd initially, but that becomes clearer when seen through the prism ofMbembe's concept. In his elaboration of"conviviality" in the context of postcoloniality, he advances the idea...
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Kali-fornia
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 72–74.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Marilyn Chin Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 KALI-FORNIA MarilynChin Marilyn Mei Ling Chin Youare a Goddess You beautiful swine You necklace of heads Yougirdle of past deeds You have a castle With a vestibule You have your fresh lovers 0 how you wear them like nipple-rings...
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The Ultimate Rebellion: Chicana Narratives of Sexuality and Community
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 139–170.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Marginst,he identity monikers "lesbian" and "Chicana" work together to generate the possibility of a new political, social, and even sexual agency for Veronica, the novel's protagonist who has recently lost her long-time lover and is renegotiating her relations to her feminist, lesbian, and Chicana/o...
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Elegy for Mary Turner
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... quiet feet. Rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and coral snakes Red touches yellow kills a fellow! Beware of dark corners, wood piles, hollow logs, and empty boots Black widows and the brown recluse Violins and hourglasses Cannibalistic lovers It could have been any black man in the county...
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Where Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 88–120.
Published: 01 March 2014
... violates their sisterly bond. With neither a lover nor confidant, Sula dies alone at the end of the novel, and her sexuality fails to manifest erotic power. The community casts Sula as its scapegoat for all ofits ills and, to use Lorde's words, simply produces "a shift of characters in the same weary drama...
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Memory's Muse
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 September 2011
... possession over 70,000 guilders, black slaves, coffee plantations, ships, and a lover of high rank. Being scorned and branded a prostitute and a whore leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Trickling tears awake, Impulses-tender, pure, fine. Shudders flesh to bone. The plakkaat 2 has no quintessence within...
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Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 58–81.
Published: 01 September 2005
... with Raj, Raj refuses to marry her unless he has her father's approval. He follows her to India, thereby undermining Baldev's efforts to separate the lovers. But he also dashes Simran's hopes that he has come to take her away. "No Simran," he informs her, "I haven't come here to steal you. I might have...
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