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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
... framework will encourage more women of color and other marginalized groups to become more involved in the political movement for reproductive freedom. Using narrative analysis, this essay explores what reproductive justice means to this movement, while placing it within the political, social, and cultural...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chinyere Okafor Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques, this paper also explores the tales told to understand how queer people in the Caribbean create a home of recognition...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
... will encourage more women of color and other marginalized groups to become more involved in the political movement for reproductive freedom. Using narrative analysis, this essay explores what reproductive justice means to this movement, while placing it within the political, social, and cultural context from...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to the domestic is configured and reconfigured in narratives of the Pakistani ulema and narratives of prominent progressive Muslim activists in Canada. My analysis of these narratives reveals the anxieties that surface and crystallize around the figure of the Al-Huda woman when analyzed against the hegemonies...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and inflects a U.S. Third World feminist analysis by examining how the narrative draws attention to the ways gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class are entwined. Rather than view the text as an outright rejection of the dubious premises and promises provided by fairy tales—individualist, (hetero)sexist...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Tracey Jean Boisseau Abstract This essay offers a close reading of Anne Moody’s widely read but under-theorized memoir of the civil rights movement, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). This essay’s focus mirrors a main focus in Moody’s narrative: her relationship with her mother. Much of the body...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the family. In Part II, I develop an analysis of 498Ajurisprudence to demonstrate the role of the judiciary in sustaining the belief that women "misuse" the law. Drawing on a critical reading of these judicial narratives, I argue that Indian patriarchies are being "recast" (Sangari and Vaid 1990)in law...
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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 (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Wiebke Beushausen Abstract This article offers a literary and cultural studies approach to sexual citizenship and belonging through a reading of the coming-of-age genre. Coming-of-age narratives, a primary mode of a womanist Caribbean diaspora poetics, offer fruitful ground for an analysis...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... work is less well recognized than other African novelists and playwrights, Onwueme occupies a relatively marginal role in the Nigerian and African literary canon. Nevertheless her work facilitates an analysis of neocolonialism, though in contrast to Achebe’s realist narrative, her evocation of myth...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 216–222.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Daphne Lamothe Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations . By Cheryl J. Fish . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2004 . 224 pp. Library binding, $59.95 . Copyright © 2005 by Smith College 2005 BookReview...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 208–226.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Carrie N. Baker Abstract This essay analyzes the portrayal of sex trafficking in representative dramas and documentaries, both Hollywood and independent films. The majority of these films use a rescue narrative to tell the story of sex trafficking: an innocent and naïve young woman or girl...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2006
... interrogation to it. However, even in these interrogations, categorical whiteness remains curiously without gender-as if engaging the epistemology of whiteness elides the distinctiveness of gender. For example, feminist scholar Robyn Wiegman's otherwise trenchant analysis of"Whiteness Studies and the Paradox...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 117–141.
Published: 01 March 2007
... inequality within the public space. The implementation of a conjunctural approach to the analysis of scripts, one that juxtaposes discrepant cultural narratives of race, serves as a critical race pedagogy that functions to expose and disrupt the effects of the discursive power of whiteness. We have some...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and human nature. My generalization about the Euro-American modernist narrative of exile is based upon Caren Kaplan's (1996) analysis, in which she suggests that the obliteration of the material history ofimmigration serves as the foundation of ahistorical aestheticism that characterizes this narrative...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... The analysis of the narratives illuminates socialization practices that transcend the official discourses about migrant children fractured between “two cultures.” The daughters witness several strategies aimed at helping the children cope with and address racism. In the interviews, mothers are remembered...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of oppression that reproduce practices of marginalization, silence, and erasure. To counter this, they embrace and reproduce narratives of resilience that remain pervasive in cultural and subcultural locales of their lives while also “speaking truth to power” where they work to confront their pain via radical...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of self and identity. Through an analysis of the life history narrative of middleclass, Afro-Guyanese political activist Andaiye, I explore the ways in which the return home is necessarily about locating oneselfin a place from which SHE WHO RETURNED HOME 41 to engage in the struggle not just...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., all three magazines displayed a U.S.-centered analysis that reproduced a familiar narrative of Western rescue of victims in a dangerously unstable region. As Koshy points out, the American media "still remains primarily oriented to a national context and is thus unable to generate a transnational...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 171–203.
Published: 01 March 2003
... with bringing sexism to light in the Black community in the broadest sense, he nevertheless dubbed Black Macho"an elusive work [whose] pages offer autobiography, historical information, sociology, and mere opinion dressed up to resemble analysis. It is a polemic, seriously felt, sometimes scathing, often...
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