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Authority, History, and Everyday Mysticism in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton: A Womanist View
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., the celebratory), the natural, the Spirit, and the Self; and in relationship to feminism. A womanist, for Walker, "is a black feminist or feminist of color" (Walker 1983, xi). Clifton's poetry strongly resonates with all of these aspects ofWalker's vision of"womanism," but perhaps most obviously so...
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Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... In this anthology a group of women poets from Pakistan, who refuse to conform to both sociocultural and literary traditions, react to oppression by calling attention to the way in which female experiences are policed and controlled by the state. I aim to demonstrate that though poetry is often regarded as a private...
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American Beech: Winner of the 2023 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award for Poetry
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 516–517.
Published: 01 October 2023
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Contesting Militarized Violence in “Northeast India”: Women Poets against Conflict
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... This essay examines the importance of women’s poetry as a gendered documentation of conflict, a peace narrative, a poet’s reading of history, and a site of memory. Can poetry express the particularized “sorrow of women” (Mamang Dai) without sentimentality and concession? How do these poetic contestations...
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Radical Interdisciplinarity: A New Iteration of a Woman of Color Methodology
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 445–456.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Rosamond S. King Abstract This essay delineates the concept of radical interdisciplinarity, the use of methodologies that combine traditional scholarship with that which is not traditionally considered either scholarship or even part of an academic discipline—specifically poetry and other creative...
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Introduction
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 91–97.
Published: 01 September 2011
... condition, even in prose and poetry, our words from January 12th are laced with strands of critical observation. This collection seeks both to honor the feminist tradition of using different genres to tell stories and also to assure that the blurring of these genres does, in fact, offer a more nuanced...
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Building the Neo-Archive: Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... A lush work of memories, poetry, and criticism, the work presents vignettes from the author's life alongside her meditations on writing, history, mapmaking, and most important for this essay, the archives. Brand's memoir is replete with supporting materials that range from ffteenth-century journals...
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Traveling Words: A Reflection on “Rotundamente negra” and Afro-Descendant Women's Cultural Politics
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of technology, but also of the physical transnational flows of Afro-descendant women and their ideas at conferences, meeting one another, and finding common ground through political activism and poetry. Most significant is the meaning women attach to the poem and the places where it is interpreted, recited...
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And so I Write You: Practices in Black Women’s Diaspora
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., phone calls, emails and poetry from across the geographic black diaspora to ethnographically illustrate how black women’s diverse forms of self expression reveal how they write themselves into relationship with other black women. These are the conversations of the sacred, the longings, sorrow...
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Eusebia Cosme and Black Womanhood on the Transatlantic Stage
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Takkara Brunson Abstract A woman of African descent born in Cuba, Eusebia Cosme relocated to the United States during the late 1930s. She quickly became an internationally renowned performer of “Afro-Antillean” poetry, dressing in elaborate costumes as she recited the works of prominent poets who...
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The International Engagements of Working-Class Jamaican Women: Listening to Louise Bennett and Her Routes Women
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 412–434.
Published: 01 March 2017
... dimension of her and her speakers’ conceptualizations of Jamaican identity (roots). Miss Lou’s poetry offers valuable departure points for critical recognition of the international interest, awareness, and saavy of Jamaican working-class women who migrate metaphorically rather than physically. Copyright ©...
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Panther Teacher: Sarah Webster Fabio’s Black Power
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 51–81.
Published: 01 September 2018
... an international reputation as an essential voice within the Black Arts Movement. She was an early theorist of Black Vernacular English and later extended her work with multimedia by performing with musical accompaniment. In the 1970s she recorded four albums of poetry and music for Folkways Records and published...
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The Rise of the Madre Abnegada (Selfless Mother): Sara García and the National Maternal
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that introduced audiences to a martyr-like maternal figure: the madre abnegada (selfless mother). This essay examines the origin, diffusion, and popularity of this uniquely Mexican subjectivity. Drawing on poetry, song lyrics, movie reviews, and an analysis of the film Mi madrecita (1940), the essay argues...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., ciguapismo in Espaillat’s poetry offers a critical resource, an imaginative faculty, and a liminal ontology for mapping transformative feminist intimacies against a backdrop of ever-encroaching human and environmental losses. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022...
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Meridians Interview with Marilyn Chin
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 67–69.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Meridians Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 SPOKEN WORD MeridianIsnterview with Marilyn Chin MER Io I AN s : Can you tell readers a little bit about your poetry? MAR IL Y N c HIN: I see my poetry as a medium for the cross-fertilization of East and West, ancient...
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Tribute to June Jordan
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and import of poetry, a friend talking about what· ever-could escape the seductive, high-pitched laughter that always punctuated her conversation. There was joy in everything June undertook. I would call her sometimes for no other reason than to feel the exhilaration of her protracted laughter. Her lifelong...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 243–245.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Kansas. The majority of her poetry is spiritually based and addresses issues of gender, race and identity. Eager to express the accomplishments of underrepresented women, she is writing a novel about juvenile delinquents. Her selection of poems...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 480–481.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Evelyne Trouillot; Nathan H. Dize Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 Evelyne Trouillot Haiti poetry Haitian literature Haitian earthquake La terre a soulevé mon cœur d’un mouvement sec et violent elle l’a déchiré éparpillant mille morceaux comme larmes d’oiseaux errants aux...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 312–315.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in TheNorton Introductionto Poetry, and TheBestAmericanPoetryof1996.Her awards include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN-Josephine Miles Award, and the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. She was featured in the PBSseries TheLanguageofLife.She teaches in the M.F.A. program at San· Diego...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 236–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
...); and Omenuko, an English translation of the classic Igbo novel by Pita Nwana (2005). He recently completed a critical edition of the complete poetry of Christopher Okigbo and is coeditor ofThe ColumbiaAnthologyofAfticanLiterature (forthcoming). LAURA CHAKRAVARTY BOX is Assistant Professor ofTheater at Colby...
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