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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 (2019) 18 (1): 227–243.
Published: 01 April 2019
... second-generation black and Third Wave feminist daughter and mother, forwards a child-and-parent-centric model of motherhood that privileges biological bonds over chosen bonds (e.g., step, adoptive, othermothers) with one’s children. A self-identified bisexual woman, Walker centralizes in Baby Love...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 71–100.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of oppression of the female body. This language of the body does not rely on essentialist parameters of “race” or of women's “nature.” On the contrary, by depicting rape as universal, non-culture–specific issue, Keller's novel sketches a mother–daughter relationship where the daughter finds a way to identify...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of literary criticism, as well as historical writings dealing with African American mother-daughter conflict, centers on the observation that Black mothers have often found themselves in conflict with daughters whom they seek to protect by schooling them in accommodationist behavior to better survive...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
... mother accepts the author’s proclamation of her own death, the mother mourns the simultaneous loss of her daughter and mother. In the midst of her mother’s suffering, the author shares the joyous mourning of her travels with Grandma. Works Cited and in Absented Presence Black Portraiture[s] n.d...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 28–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Cassandra Fetters Abstract Taking feminist relational psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin's ideas of “mutual recognition” as foundation, and studying the female relationships—mothers and daughters and friends—in Toni Morrison's Sula, I trace the complexities of the psychological development of Nel...
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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 (2014) 12 (1): 88–120.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of history, this essay argues that Southgate rewrites the script of black female desire beyond sexual subjugation and racial stereotype over the course of the novel's three generations of mothers and daughters. Southgate reveals the importance of black women controlling the narrative of black female...
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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 (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 (2023) 22 (2): 503–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the roles that grief, death, Black motherhood, and the Black southern oral tradition play within their ever-growing bond. As their relationship progresses from researcher and respondent to mother and daughter, their bond displays the connective tissue that binds one person to another through history, memory...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 32–48.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... It makes a huge difference, and not just that, but you're now a mother of a teenage daughter, and I wondered if that had anything to do with what got recovered in that memory bank. MA: Well, I'm sure. Youknow, there is a very interesting book called ShatteredSubjectsw, hich talks about fivewomen writers...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., is nonetheless “on this earth” (Baderoon, 245). Our final essay, Cheryl R. Hopson’s “Breaking Silences: A Contemporary Black Feminist Reading of Rebecca Walker’s Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence ,” also takes up the mother-daughter relationship as a window into larger concerns...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 163–164.
Published: 01 March 2007
... on mother-daughter relationships in Asian American literature. RICKIE SOLINGER is a historian writing books about reproductive politics, welfare politics, and the questions, who gets to be a "legitimate mother" in the U.S., who does not, and what do race and class have to do with this? For 15 years...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
... wonders: Are we all ghosts temporarily inhabiting embodiment? How does loss shape access to language, to self-definition? What are the properties of care that we can practice in the instability of understanding? What can be made evident here? Courtney R. Baker’s article, “Mothers, Daughters...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 416–421.
Published: 01 March 2018
... toward marginalized HIV-positive women of color activists and understanding the silences and challenges of African American mother-daughter communication about health, wellness, and sexuality. Intersectionality as an analytical tool enables me to pay attention to how unmarked categories of health, gender...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 185–205.
Published: 01 April 2022
... lighthearted in many respects, “Get the Belt” alludes to some painful truisms about mother/daughter relationships in Black households. There is a palpable tension between Tonisha and Reniece that is not there between Tonisha and ManMan, although he is equally subject to her discipline. Tonisha certainly...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 183–205.
Published: 01 April 2019
... with the milk from your mother’s breast, otherwise it’s useless.” She recognizes daughters only ever belong to their mothers, but the link between love and these daughters is always already severed, as Cathy’s daughter, like her sons, wouldn’t have been offered her mother’s milk. Even Cathy II, who, based...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and substantive material in our team meetings, identities that cut across our team like mother/daughter, Arab/not-Arab, Muslim/not-Muslim were salient. Second, following the incorporation of graduate student RAs, we had institutional capacity to bring three more early-career scholars onto the team: Mohammed...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 219–240.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., education, work, family life, and political rights. Thus, following the lead of many previous excursions, the mother-daughter trip to North Africa could be described by a reporter for CNN as one "largely about the empowerment of women, about giving them choices through economic opportunity, education...
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