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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Erica L. Johnson Abstract In this article I argue that Cliff's portrait of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant participates in a genre of subaltern historiography that I term “ghostwriting.” Cliff was inspired to write...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the nineteenth-century black abolitionist and entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant, who provided funding for the 1859raid of John Brown. Brown, a radical white abolitionist, led a spectacular but unsuccessful slaveinsurrection at Harper's Ferry,Virginia (present-day West Virginia) and was subsequently found guilty...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
... (for Blacks or whites) in Mississippi at the time (Moody [1968] 1975: 229). Mount Pleasant School seems to have left little mark on the adult Moody, beyond the resentment she felt at the thought of its deficiencies and the memory of the cold winds that blew through the cracks in the walls...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 81–110.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to consuming "some agreeable, exotic food." As she ingests this pleasant taste of belonging through the unique luxury of anonymity, Helga, "who has no home," feels as if she has "come home" (Larsen 1928/2000, 30). 1 Helga's enthusiasm in this scene could easily reflect the energy and possibility that Larsen...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 September 2010
... catering to Japanese customers or become prostitutes." The following senryu poems by Martley summarize the diversity of war brides' lives: JJ.U'.i,uIJ7'J'fi!~VJJ:1ij;~rtH.L: Care for others, creating a pleasant workplace (Stout and Martley 1985f) I (-t;:fi fljttJ.0 (:Yflj[,Jt'~ Singing child, crying child...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2016
... beloved, will I acknowledge that it was not a very pleasant one. (Porten 2001) Thursday, November 13, 1862: Talked to the children a little while to-day about the noble Toussaint [L'Ouverture]. They listened very attentively. It is well that they should know what one of their own color could do for his...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of the past three hundred years of supremacist rule in the southern African region cannot be an easy or pleasant task. Political struggles for rights are always costly for those who want to hold onto privilege as well as for those who aspire to a new dispensation, and the manipulation of people's desires...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 62–82.
Published: 01 September 2009
... wrote Lewis a letter that helped her secure a pleasant place to stay. See Child 1865. She was also introduced to Hiram Powers, America's most popular neoclassical sculptor. Lewis wrote that Powers had given her "some things," including a NAURICE FRANK WOODS, JR. AN AFRICAN QUEEN AT THE EXPOSITION: 77...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
... bend that leads to the city: My mind slowly divides in two, half ofit attending to the pleasant conversation my friend and I are having, while the other half quietly slips away to accompany rafters on what's left of their trip" (44). She later notes, "my mind continues along," and she begins...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... over revolution, the woman of color of Hearn’s imaginary is the perfect colonial subject, bred to be beautiful, pleasant, and obliging—like a scentless flower, a seedless fruit, the carefully crafted hybrid of generations of sexual abuse. Hearn mitigates this rather horrific meditation...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... York when I was thirty-seven. I remember he had a loft. And so I started liming [or, hanging out at] the loft. I was glad to hear from him and the other people that he was around-all of whom were old friends that I really hadn't seen in so long. And that turned into a really pleasant lime...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-centeredness, and being pleasant and compliant-still apply. But this socialist expectation is still an expectation, which can be interpreted and applied variably by different patriarchal hegemonies in China. For instance, some upper-middle-class Chinese men still prefer their wives to stay at home since money...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 28–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
... her see what she has repressed. Juxtaposed against Nel's obstinate clinging to her established role of good woman wronged, the sexual promiscuity and freedom inherent in the Peace household where Sula was raised "taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable," and she...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 23–55.
Published: 01 September 2005
... to keep to themselves in all public places" (208). Further distinguishable by a '"black voice,' a black character, easy, irresponsible and fond of what is soft and pleasant," Howells contends, blacks have "a black ideal of art and a black barbaric taste in color" (209, original emphasis). Although...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., and pleasant, as shown in the scene where she helps Laoshih scratch her back: I go back to the "Girls' Dormitory" [from the other side of the boat where only male passengers are allowed to sleep]. Lao-shih strains to scratch her back. "I'll scratch it for you!" I stick my hand up under her blouse and scratch...
