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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 207–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . 2015 . Resilience and Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism . Winchester, UK : Zero Books . James Robin . 2017 . “ Post-feminism’s ‘New Sexual Contract’ and Electronic Dance Music’s Queered Femme Voices .” Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 9 , no. 1 : 28...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 410–434.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jennifer Cho Abstract Turning to extant theories of melancholy, this article uses Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée to reevaluate the linear trajectory of Asian American identity formation in the United States. In particular, the author develops the term mel- han -choly—a hybrid form of melancholy...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 36–61.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Jennifer Cho Abstract Drawing from theories of melancholy from David Eng, David Kazanjian, and Anne Anlin Cheng, I use Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée to reevaluate the accepted linear trajectory of Asian American identity formation in the U.S. In particular, I develop the term mel- han -choly...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Singh Baldwin, with its allegories around gendered memory and retelling. American and Japanese colonialism is a subtext ofJennifer Cho's essay, "Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee." The author argues, through culturally specific and analytic theories of melancholy...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 231–233.
Published: 01 April 2023
... to Chavers: #Blackgirlmagic s Resilience Discourse and the Fear of Melancholy Black Femme Digital Subjectivity, Meridians 21:1 Bio: Jennifer Williams is an assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Their research and teaching interests include African...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief . New York : Oxford University Press . Dayan Joan . 2001 . “ Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies .” Neplanta: Views from the South 2 , no. 1 : 3 – 39 . Douglass Frederick . ( 1845 ) 1997. Narrative of the Life...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 131–138.
Published: 01 December 2020
... compels us to deconstruct other politically loaded tropes, including security, liberty, freedom, truth, civil rights, Islamic fundamentalism, women under the Taliban, the flag, and “America.” Fifth, we recognize the gendered and ethnocentric history of sentimentality, grief, and melancholy that have...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 302–308.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., and melancholy that have been mobilized in the new war effort. We do not intend to disparage or dismiss the sadness and deep emotions raised by the events of 9-11and its aftermath. But we do think it is important to point out that there has been a massive deployment of therapeutic discourses that ask people...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., and other geopolitical contexts make this intervention more urgent than ever. 1 A constellation of concepts—sorrow songs, wake work, critical fabulation, social death, grief and grievance, grievability, melancholy of race, postcolonial melancholia, biopolitics, necropolitics and necropower, queer...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2022
... politics and poetics of Black femme self-love, Jennifer Williams’s Media Matters essay, “Apologizing to Chavers: #Blackgirlmagic’s Resilience Discourse and the Fear of Melancholy Black Femme Digital Subjectivity,” delves into the contentious debate unleashed when Linda Chavers’s 2016 article criticizing...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... exclusion of Black Americans despite emancipation and civil rights, but it does not rely on sociological data. Sharpe views the impact of the enslaved past in the present through shared affective states across national boundaries, similarly to Paul Gilroy’s ( 2006 ) theories of melancholy or David Scott’s...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 146–162.
Published: 01 March 2002
... to gravitate toward the obviously defiant. On the other hand, American viewers at her exhibitions have been intrigued by her intricate manipulation of newspapers and the way she highlights the pensive and melancholy moods ofher anonymous subjects. Curators have been attracted to the intimacy of her works, how...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
... has an endless preoccupation with the past. The opening encounters are but a small glimpse into three years of “formal interviews” and a lifetime of conversations together. 4 Like the drag of melancholy, my m other ’ s stories of the past encumber the present, shaping her affective daily...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., Comhaire-Sylvain ( 1933 : 98) identified it as an “enigma,” “sometimes poetic and of a captivating charm, with its fables and humorous tales” that often contradicted the assumed totalizing melancholy around mourning, loss, or daily life. In the negatives, Comhaire-Sylvain’s smile puzzles and consorts...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
... movement toward depathologizing melancholia and the refusal to let go of the past, particularly among oppressed populations. This perpetual melancholy becomes a mode of resistant politics, insisting that elided histories must be remembered. As David L. Eng and David Kazanjian argue in Loss, "a continuous...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and empathy also becomes apparent in the lack of communication between Akiko and Beccah. Neither woman can relate to the other her life story. For instance, only after Akiko's death does Beccah learn about the origin of her mother's trauma and of her unorthodox behavior, such as her fits of melancholy...
