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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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. The other night, Grandma was with a puppy. I heard her saying we...
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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 (2005) 5 (2): 124–148.
Published: 01 March 2005
... an adoptive mother in a transracial adoption and ofliving in a race-conscious (and racist) society that privileges biological mothering over adoptive mothering. 13 Parental Voices ADULT ADOPTION MEMOIRS: THE LOST DAUGHTERS OF CHINA AND WUHU DIARY In a sense, Karin Evans's and Emily Prager's narrative memoirs...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 51–68.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., exasperation, and irritation expressed by both mother and daughter toward the other at particular moments in the film do speak to many people about the multiple identities and negotiations that enforced migration serves to create, especially in relation to family members. It is also evident in the exchange...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 187–203.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., and independence does grate on me and has done so every time I have watched the film. Yet,at the same time, the frustration, exasperation, and irritation expressed by both mother and daughter toward the other at particular moments in the film do speak to many people about the multiple identities and negotiations...
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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 (2007) 7 (2): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the piece called "Stretched Thin," which is essentially about a girl's determined efforts to stay close to her mother doing time, and the mother's reciprocal efforts. As usual, the mother is in a prison many hundreds of miles away from the city where her little daughter lives, making regular visits very...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 92–116.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of food and the Haitian urgency for consumption causes a contradiction in the act of eating, a re-valuation that emerges from the clash of two socioeconomic behaviors. Sophie's mother was herself victim of this dilemma before her daughter: "In the beginning, food was a struggle. To have so much to eat...
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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 (2009) 9 (1): 141–162.
Published: 01 September 2009
... alternately as both mother and daughter to Clare. It seems less important to the novel that the relationships be fixed than for these relationships to be reciprocal and productive, rendering history and ancestry cyclical rather than teleological. Abengand NoTelephoneto Heavenrecover elements of a marginalized...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 183–205.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Cathy’s declaration that daughters only ever belong to their mothers (Slavitt 2015 , 29–30). Etiennise too recognizes the benefits of children; however, in her case, she is interested in providing three more for her mother in order to “make her young again,” without the assistance Satyavati negotiated...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 5–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of Dutch feminist and Queer of Color spaces symbolizing transnational feminist genealogies of mourning. Shifting our focus to activism in Sweden, Diana Mulinari and Paulina de los Reyes’s Essay “Activist Mothering” examines the experiences of daughters of political activist migrant mothers who came...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
Published: 01 November 2018
... her collection Beating the Graves (2017), of African women’s writing. Facing impending motherhood, the speaker contemplates her own transformation from daughter into “becoming Mother.” The poem maps the borders between what “we cannot know” and “how it has always been,” unshaken and yet without...
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