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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 155.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Reetika Vazirani Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 WHAT A FISHER GIRL SAID IN DEFENSE OF ABSENCE, HER LOVER ReetikaVazirani at least he kept his promise he said I'll make you rich even though he left when I close my eyes I'm hitched to his strides he's shown me my house...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 128–145.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the time or opportunity. The three were former students of the Indraprastha Girls' School. And mutually acquainted. Baruna asked Raj and Sujata, "Did both of you submit your applications for the positions here?" "Yes," said Sujata, "at Gupta's office." Rajkumari, the youngest among them, said, "Same here...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 126–165.
Published: 01 March 2008
... because my father had been a wonderful baseball player and had gotten an offer to go to Cuba and come back and say he was a Cuban, so that he could play baseball. He was also offered a four-year scholarship to Syracuse University. Well, the story that always went around our family was, he said...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 123–125.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of it doesn't work, but it's more than clutter. Next to the fridge NOW in gold letters. He said you said, "I want to survive." Some stuff doesn't work. Clutter? No. Too much weed? No. It's a desire for beauty. He said you said you wanted to survive. Then he admitted you hadn't talked in two weeks. Marijuana...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 32–48.
Published: 01 March 2008
... are but I know who they are," so there is a context which is not there in the second edition. Was that a conscious choice? MEENA ALEXANDER: Yes,yes. I think your student put it rather well; I said to him, "Why do you think I left out that first bit, that preamble?" and he said, "Wellbecause I think it's now...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 130–153.
Published: 01 March 2001
... be scrubbing floors, doing the washing. It was very,very degrading. And I kicked up such a fuss. I said, you know, I don't really see why I should be doing this work when my mom's paying for me to be staying here. And basically they said, do you want to go home? And I said, definitely. And I left and came home...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 53–64.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Laila Halaby Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 FICTION Fireand Sand LAILA HALABY Khadija. In Islam, Khadija was the Prophet Muhammad's wife. She was much older than he was and had a lot of money. He was said to have loved her very much. In America my name sounds like someone...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 132–138.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... This is what I know of that Egyptian queen: It is said that she was a princess from another land. She was the wife of Akhenaten, and the mother of six daughters. She and her husband started a new religion. But then she suddenly disappeared from public record. Some scholars believe that she was banished...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 229–245.
Published: 01 April 2021
... probing question after another. By this point, adults disgusted me so thoroughly my mutiny was a form of self-respect. Geneva said the pregnancy wasn’t anyone’s fault. She was going to handle it. If she wanted to act grown, she could be grown. Later, before she moved into her own apartment, my father...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 September 2011
... listlessly. Several of the passengers nodded their approval of the obvious act ofkindness Kate had done. A mild disquiet deep within caused a few others to look away. Kate kept her eyes on the child, guarding him like the priceless gem she believed he was. No one aboard the airplane said a word. The shock...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 506–511.
Published: 01 October 2022
... lock in rooms. years later my mother told me a story about her she’d gone to South Africa to be with her South African boyfriend he locked her in a room for hours or maybe it was days she managed eventually to ring her mother from under the bed sure, my mother said, what good could her...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 149–157.
Published: 01 September 2011
... the house was emptied out because everything was shaking. I ran out. A cement block fell on my head and I got a fracture on my body. Now, when I got out of the house I saw how outside everything had crumbled to the ground. I said, oh my God! My friends! I can't see them!-Solange, PotoMitan If I'm alive I...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 13–21.
Published: 01 December 2020
... or twenty years. And that is that I was very smart. I don’t really know how I retained that secret, except there were a lot of people who worked with me as a young person and who said “Ruth, you are very smart and you should realize it; you can do anything you want to do.” But it was very hard at times...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 206–210.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Mygrandfather especially admires Satchel Paige. "Don't look back," he had said just that morning, walking with me to the classroom. "Something might be gaining on you." He has filled my head with sayings such as these, some of which I understand-"Try and try again"-most I do not. I am pretending I am at my old...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 September 2006
... choke off the cotton plants. I was ten years old, and they took me to see if they could get me to work because it was just my dad, my older sister, my mother: a crew of three, and me. So he asked the man ifhe could put me to work and ifhe would pay me. And the guy said, yes, but that it would have...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in bright colors, rather she didn’t want me to wear red, and I loved red; she said that this wasn’t a color for black people, so in this way she came to single me out as different because I had dark skin. I never realized it until my mother began to say this to me and my siblings. When we talked about...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 96–101.
Published: 01 March 2010
... affectionate missives to an array of friends and relatives. Blanche's response was something like, "oh, please," but she initially was not interested. "You know what I actually said to him," Blanche said, shaking her head in disbelief, "I said, I write hard history," meaning the kind of diplomatic and foreign...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 214–221.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and unchangeable. A pencil could be said to have a mind of its own. The dark sweet mind of a pencil had to be nurtured and lured out into the sunshine. Sometimes the tip of a pencil had to be licked in order to start it up after a long night's sleep. You could sign your life away with a pen and never know what...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... resonated with her study of Islam’s epistemological traditions. She said: My understanding of the term secularism is that it doesn’t mean “irreligious.” . . . The secularist or secular intellectual doesn’t mean an irreligious person or an atheist. It means, perhaps, looking at all things from a more...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 172–200.
Published: 01 March 2014
... with survivors of sex trafficking in specific communities. She said, and I quote, "The main thing I learned from the girls is that the human spirit can be even stronger than everything designed to suppress it. Here are girls that have been prostituted for generations, with every girl made to feel she has to sell...
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