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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lisa Suhair Majaj Abstract This article situates the Palestinian right of return within the context of Palestinian-American literary reflections and the intersection of women’s and human rights. Providing a brief history of Palestinian dispossession and the struggle for return, it explores...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 102–116.
Published: 01 March 2007
... corners of the globe. On this occasion she had returned to the United Kingdom to present a research paper at the international conference “The United States and Global Human Rights” held at Oxford University. The timing of the interview was made pertinent by this context and by the fact that it was almost...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
... law and Palestinian human rights has become starkly evident. In this context, the issue of return -always the dominating theme of Palestinian existence, but for decades rendered almost invisible on the international scene-arises with new potency. The following essay situates discussion of Palestinian...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and women, is a project also taken up in the three texts discussed here: Tina Campt’s Listening to Images (2017), Michelle D. Commander’s Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (2017), and Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016). One of Hartman’s most...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 128–145.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in India. It also coincides with the rising curiosity regarding South Asian women's writings, and a renewed interest in Partition since the 1980s. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2002, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 128-45] ©2002 by Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. 128 Born in 1894, married...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the interconnectedness of citizenship, sexuality, race, and bodily integrity in the Jamaican context, while also critically reflecting on those circumstances under which access to sexual rights is either granted or denied. I argue that a focus on women's sexual citizenship in literature expands formal notions...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 September 2002
... The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater will be his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments will prevail. (1995, 13) In Argentina the groups that were directly responsible for countless human rights violations retained a great deal of power after the return...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 108–113.
Published: 01 March 2004
... assistants and in return you sponsor for us an economic human rights resolution that will call upon the integration of the principles of economic human rights into the laws and policies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?" He asked, "Has this been done before?" And, only because I was misinformed, I said...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 March 2006
... that conveys maternal intimacy and protection and filial confidence. Both stare frontally at the viewer as if returning the gaze from which, had they been outdoors, they would have had to seek refuge in the veil. They seem to assert their personhood and the right to exist in the enclosed domestic space...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 261–266.
Published: 01 March 2004
... by Smith College. All rights reserved. 261 Her devotion so impresses the dragon king that he returns her, releases her from her grave of seaweed, slimy grave of ocean floor, delivers her back to life atop a lotus flower; fishermen in the harbor stunned into silence. Yearslater, as a queen, she calls out...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the wall. I am the girl in the basement at one in the morning On a borrowed typewriter Crying because there is never enough information [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2000, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. n2-13] © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. II2 POEMS On Greek theatre architecture...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Meera Kosambi FROM THE ARCHIVES Returning the American Gaze MEERA KOSAMBI 1889 In a world plotted on the Western, patriarchal meridian, Pandita Ramabai's life trajectory (1858-1922) left a dual and seemingly contradictory but logically interrelated imprint-international iconization...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Returning</span> the American Gaze: Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples of the United States , 1889
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 9–27.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Kate Clifford Larson Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 KATE CLIFFORD LARSON HARRIETROSSTUBMAN TIMELINE HarrietTubmancirca1886.Author'scollection. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2014, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 9-27) © 2014 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 9 1785-1790: Harriet...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 219–254.
Published: 01 December 2020
... with their band, and be able to return if their circumstances change, when they retire, or for burial. It is also important to them that their children have rights as band members” (Holmes 1987 , 18). The lack of interest in returning or moving to the reserves was and is owing to the intense political...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 127–161.
Published: 01 September 2006
... important to them that their children have rights as band members" (Holmes 1987, 18). The lack ofinterest in returning or moving to the reserves was and is owing to the intense political conflicts over "Bill C-31s" (the name given to women who have been reinstated under the amendment). Since 1985, a few...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 399–407.
Published: 01 October 2023
... a burden. This understanding created an atmosphere of trust in which women told me of atrocities they had endured that they had not shared with anyone else. I had nothing to offer them in return, no redress of grievance, no assurance of nonrecurrence, and so forth. But we would sometimes just sit, hold...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Elora Halim Chowdhury Abstract In this article the author builds on the idea of Bangladeshi national cinema as human rights cinema to explore its role in documenting and engendering understanding about women, vulnerability, and agency within a Muktijuddho gender ideology. Drawing from feminist...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2000
... University Press. All rights reserved. 204 ley herself learned of African American history, particularly through the workofW.E.B. DuBois, in Sunday school. With the help ofalocal businessman, Motley was able to attend college, graduating from New York University in 1943. She went on to Columbia University...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... addresses (without joining in) an aspect of the social world that has become even more visible with the rise of human rights frameworks—mostly of the LGBTI variety (see, for example, Nyeck and Epprecht 2013 ; Epprecht 2013 ) or the West’s obsession with “salvage anthropology,” and the unrestrained search...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
... own yard, where he was sleeping, and hanged from a tree right across from the State House. While he was still alive, the mob cut his throat and hacked his body with knives. Although thousands of Blacks fled the city, encouraged not to return by Whites who refused to sell them food and other staples...
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