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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for an insertion that, although not particularly useful for this exercise in translation, is made necessary for the internal workings of a language that does not take politely to “direct translation” and political omission. Throughout my life whenever I have encountered my mother’s people in my grandmother’s...
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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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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and binding—or, to use the language of A Mercy , the lashing—that deforms the relationship between mothers and daughters and produces an archive of intergenerational mourning that struggles to be transmitted and deciphered. This essay seeks to understand how language and affective bonds influence...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ariana Vigil Abstract Relying on feminist theory concerning difference, identity, gender, and solidarity, “Transnational Community in Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue ” reads Martínez's 1994 novel through a transnational feminist lens. I point out that Mother Tongue complicates identification...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
... was directly tied to a decision I made years ago when I was in second grade. Being a child without the ability to critically process the world around me, I could not have known then what it would have meant to my Chinese immigrant mother-and what it would continue to mean-when I told her that day after school...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Marie Sarita Gaytán Abstract Hailed by fans and critics as “Mexico’s Mother,” and later “Mexico’s Grandmother,” the actor Sara García exemplified the sentimental attributes associated with notions of womanhood. As Mexico’s mother par excellence, García created multigenerational portrayals...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 156–160.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and pretend to see the North Star or touch the sides of the trees, feeling around for moss. KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD FROM MATERNAL MOTHER TO JEZEBEL 157 When I got down to the lake, I would pretend that we were in the Promised Land, and I would get down on my knees and kiss the ground. I would shout, "Youall...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 14–16.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Gabeba Baderoon Copyright © 2019 Gabeba Baderoon 2019 virgin Muslim Thelma and Louise apartheid existence On hearing this, you are puzzled because everyone tells you the breaking is the sign of a good woman but you grasp that she has told you the law of the mother. One...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Leigh Johnson Abstract This article argues that, as a tool for social justice and resistance, the concept of motherwork can be usefully applied to two texts by Chicana writers—Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe and Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue . The essay draws on Patricia Hill Collins's...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 80–86.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Vanara Taing Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 Tomy mother,VannyPat whois a survivoroftheCambodianGenocidtehat took placeundertheKhmerRougeregimein the years1975-1979. At nineteens, he escapedonfoot to theThai-bordecrarryingmewithinher,and my sixyear-olduncle Layon hershoulders. I...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 1. Photograph of Xiomara and her mother and sisters. Courtesy of Xiomara Fortuna.
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in The “Grandmother” of Indigenous Filmmaking in New Zealand: Merata Mita—Film Is Her Patu
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Published: 01 April 2024
Figure 5. A still from Heperi Mita’s documentary showing his mother at work on a film set.
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 December 2016
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 130–153.
Published: 01 March 2001
... transracialmothers are often perceived as transgressivine their families and communities. Transracial mothers, that is, mothers who are socially classified as belonging to a racial group considered distinct from that of their birth children, may be subjected to forms of surveillance, discipline, and moral censure...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Paulina de los Reyes; Diana Mulinari Abstract This article explores how young women born in Sweden, or arriving in Sweden as toddlers, who belong to the Latin American diaspora give meaning to and act on their experiences of being the daughters of migrant mothers, whose political activism shapes...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Neda Maghbouleh; Laila Omar; Melissa A. Milkie; Ito Peng Abstract This article reflects upon three developments emergent from a feminist approach in research with Syrian newcomer mothers in Toronto, Canada. First, a feminist approach shapes how the authors build their research team and facilitate...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Tiffany Caesar; Desireé Melonas; Tara Jones Abstract Through the recounting of the narratives of two revolutionary Black mothers, Melissa Mckinnies and Yolanda McNair, this essay explores the ways in which Black mothers who have lost children to police violence have responded to Black maternal...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
... institutionalized today and in the past. Specifically, as a historian, I keep focusing on this question, "Who gets to be a legitimate mother in the United States-and who does not?" I am interested in how the answers to this question are decided and enforced. What does the state have to do with it? What do...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2004
... as within the genre of Asian American mother/daughter writing. "New" and "Wimmin's" Comix5 One of very few syndicated American female cartoonists, Lynda Barry is lauded for her signature storytelling and bold graphic style-what critic Bob Callahan deems her "brilliant narrative skills" (1991, 12-13...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 382.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of my sheets fresh. the intimacy of our sheets is not fresh. it is fraught with frayed dreams hung from the wispy hairs of my mother’s temples. it is softly packed away in the folds of her arms. it is wafting silently through her curtains on sunday afternoons, when the light remembers to fall through...
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