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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ayaka Yoshimizu Abstract This article examines “Hello, War Brides,” a series of short, auto/biographical essays authored by two Japanese war brides from the state of Washington. I view this text as a product of collaborative “memory work.” Based on a textual analysis of its narratives and form, I...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... While feminist historiographies have restored Partition survivors' memories of violence to the historical archive, Baldwin's novel explicitly foregrounds the role of gendered bodies in and as the archive of communal memories of violence. I begin with Baldwin's exploration of the embodied character...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Himika Bhattacharya Abstract This article traces the memories surrounding the death of an adivasi woman, Shalini, from the northwestern Himalayan (adivasi/tribal) region of Lahaul, India. By focusing on how the memories of her death evolve in both official and community discourses, this article...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
... attacks in a “reunited” Germany. Part I explores how these poetics and politics have influenced ongoing efforts to engage with the memory of German colonialism, xenophobia, and memorialization in public spaces. Part II moves the reader into close studies of two contemporary performance works by Afro...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 331–337.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of a collective exhibition in 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya. The larger exhibition, “Curving the Visual,” consisted of photographs of African women by five African women photographers. The way memories matter is also about the matter of memory, matter that has memory and matter that imparts memory. My task...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 93–116.
Published: 01 March 2006
... represent different kinds of girlhood or young womanhood they still have to struggle with becoming a person given the constraint ofbeing a woman I wanted African women to be able to identify with the narrator. "1 BLURRED GENRES, BLENDED MEMORIES 95 Both texts are informed by the complicated politics...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 114–117.
Published: 01 September 2011
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 September 2011
... oflove's candor. Let these words bask in the thoughts and deeds of the Directors of the Society of Surinam. Respectfully, Elisabeth Samson SONIA ADAMS MEMORY'S MUSE 27 Remains in memoryof Truganin3i I. The Body skeleton first! shattered bone by bone. the color ofivory. skin, once the color and texture...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 435–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 54–56.
Published: 01 March 2003
... a fire stone you crazy in love slice your head quick as snake shuttles? Fog is his face bearded by anger? is his hair swaddled in a turban to captivate the pain 101 MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT MIRACLES 55 coarsely scribed in the language of edicts and commands Not our sensual marvels IV Sister, did you close...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 63–93.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of Chinese diasporic history: it plays with formal timelines and genealogies as memorializing tools to deconstruct history as chronological and teleological; it invents spatial histories to make visible familial relationships; and it explores the power of collaborative memory to open the way for new...
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Published: 01 October 2023
Figure 1. Memorial outside the Orlando Regional Medical Center. Photo by author, 2016.
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Published: 01 October 2023
Figure 2. Interim Memorial around what once was Pulse nightclub. Photo by author, 2018.
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Guadalupe Escobar Abstract This essay examines women’s perspectives on Salvadoran memory struggles that reckon with enmeshed military repression and US colonial capitalism. The two texts by Central American writer Claribel Alegría investigated here, the novel Ashes of Izalco (1966; trans. 1989...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 174–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Sudarat Musikawong Abstract Masculinity and nationalisms in Thailand during the 1970s served to enable gendered violence against activist women. Archival research and fieldwork reveal how feminist epistemologies and methods for studying memory are always gendered. Both conservative and leftist...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and volatility. Through three narrated encounters, the essay uses social and affective memory and autoethnographic matter as food for critical thought, building on philosophy, postcolonial, feminist, and queer criticism, in order to address the hauntology of the necropartriarchal and necropolitical against...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... A lush work of memories, poetry, and criticism, the work presents vignettes from the author's life alongside her meditations on writing, history, mapmaking, and most important for this essay, the archives. Brand's memoir is replete with supporting materials that range from ffteenth-century journals...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 121–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
...: this section of the novel underwent more revision than any other and is the sole portion of the drafts to be published as a narrative unto itself. This essay explains how the expurgated chapter reveals how voice, agency, and memory affect Invisible Man's physical and psychological ascent and confirms Ellison's...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 50–77.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Janell Hobson Abstract This essay explores representations of Harriet Tubman in African American art and contemporary popular culture. From art to children's literature to Hollywood films to public memorials, these works flatten the historical while hyperbolizing the fantastical elements of Tubman...
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