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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 153.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Reetika Vazirani 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 Daddyletthe childrending to yourbeltlikestaljtsh and husband...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 155.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Reetika Vazirani 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 is as broad as a look over a beak and there are fiftyrainy...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
...” produced by “a storm system disguised as a singer” (Rosen 2006 ). More often than not, then, the Beyoncé on B-Day does battle with lovers who need upgrading, who betray, and who fail to fulfill. By the time the euphoric crescendo of the Neptunes’ signature bass-driven “Green Light,” this heroine has...
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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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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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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 October 2020
... lover, when you were allowed: my dear, you are bilingual as if a country could be so molded, molten, underneath my tongue the curve after sines, the nerves after coherence. my wild thing is gone and i hope they never ask me because मैंने कल तीन घंटे के लिए रोया...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 205–235.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in which black women strove 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...
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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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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... colonial lover without ever a demand for reciprocity or a thought of resentment. The doudou becomes both the cause of colonialism (she must be possessed) and its justification (she wants to be possessed). Doudou literature, as the traffic in these stereotypes comes to be called, 5 is the unique...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 101–125.
Published: 01 March 2002
... to feel "the all-too-familiar stirring within him, that sensation as of some 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...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 154.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Reetika Vazirani 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 her is worst of all my names she incites jealousy young...
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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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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
... purity through preserving the sacrosanctity of the heteronormative family in the home and by extension the nation-state. She exults in being not only mother to Haider but also lover to his uncle, Khurram. She is engrossed in singing and dancing with Khurram as much as she is heartbroken at her son’s...
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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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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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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 139–170.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., including LambdaBookReport,TheAdvocatea,nd Publishers WeeklyI.n 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...
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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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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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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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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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