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Salvation is the Issue
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 116–122.
Published: 01 March 2008
... kinds of voices. In the meantime, and in this context, her health continued to fail. 2 When her cancer was still undiagnosed, she walked around with her MYISHA PRIEST SALVATION IS THE ISSUE 117 hand pressed against her heart, where the pain seemed to originate. To friends and colleagues she spoke...
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Saving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Nigeria salvation Chibok Driving across Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge with some friends in the middle of January 2017, I found myself involved in a debate of sorts. Three of us believed that one thousand days earlier, the insurgent group Boko Haram had abducted 276 adolescent girls from...
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Editor's Introduction
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to [Meridians:feminismra, ce,transnationalism 2008, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. v-vii] © 2008 by Smith College. All rights reserved. V protect and preserve that discursive intersectional ground. Two essays in this volume, "Salvation is the Issue," by Myisha Priest and "'The Future of Our Worlds': Black Feminism and the Politics...
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From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years: Theorizing Diasporic Chinese Female Subjectivities in Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 133–160.
Published: 01 September 2005
... by time and societal attitudes, the novel creates a meaningful translation of one with and against the other through their respective yet interrelated resistances to dominant practices of erasure. The Discourse of Rescue and Salvation From a narratological perspective the novel is neither a linear...
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Dirty South Moon
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 56–57.
Published: 01 September 2005
... not begged God a familiar have you not sent words dancing sung songs spontaneous then forgot that sister's hands begging fire not for your own salvation not for songs spontaneous used look the moon look look here I. Mary Turner of Brooks County, Georgia, was eight months pregnant when she was lynched...
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In Search of Justice, Human Rights, and a Just Peace by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (wluml)
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 268–270.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Salvation Front, is currently seeking asylum in the U.S. and numerous politico-religious extremists are operating out of the U.K. Human rights concepts such as freedom of expression have been misused by some international human rights organisations as well as manipulated by governments and co-opted...
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Not No Rapunzel: The House on Mango Street’ s Revised Ever After
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Giles ( 2000 : 75) argue that The House on Mango Street comments on the gendered passivity associated with waiting for male salvation. 6 This story recalls that of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye , which similarly illustrates the inapplicability, yet the power, of iconic children’s stories...
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Human Trafficking and Sex Work: Foundational Social-Work Principles
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 March 2014
... by the narratives put forward by the popular media and some organizations that paint a picture of trafficked persons in one dimension, as helpless victims in need of external salvation, rather than capable individuals navigating extreme, unjust, and complicated circumstances. Purposeful Expression of Feelings...
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Mothers, Daughters, and the Lash: Mourning the Mother Tongue in Toni Morrison’s Mercy
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of inscription akin to writing, the lashes intend to indemnify the women from harm; but as the novel illustrates, the wounds that mothers are coerced to imprint on their daughters as salvation from men’s predation are a source of mourning written in the flesh. Lashes grant affective bonds in A Mercy...
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The ‘War on Terror’ and Withdrawing American Charity: Some Consequences for Poor Muslim Women in Kolkata, India
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 137–167.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in the spirit of support for those within those communities whose goals are to make women's (and men's) lives better ? Can we use a more egalitarian language of alliances, coalitions, and solidarity, instead of salvation? (Abu-Lughod 2002, 789) As of this writing (April 2003), the Taliban (from Southern...
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Dissidence, Creativity, and Embargo Art in Nuha Al-Radi's Baghdad Diaries
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and the brotherhood of the mosque assert their authority through the politics of mediated purpose. In other words, for the occupier, liberation is achieved "under the barrel of a gun" (248). For the imam, salvation is accomplished by the protection of national interests through politicized organization and economic...
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“Hard-Headed and Masculine-Hearted Women”: Female Subjectivity in Mabel Dove-Danquah’s Fiction
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 133–149.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to think for myself,” says her narrator ([1934] 2004a , 39). One of the “gospel truths” she criticizes is what she perceives as the selfishness demonstrated by Christian, the hero in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, when he abandons his wife and children in his pursuit of individual salvation. En route...
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Keeping Up Appearances, Getting Fed Up: The Embodiment of Strength among African American Women
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 104–123.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., handle any life crisis, be the dependable rock for every soul who needed me Retirement was ultimately an act of salvation. Being a SBW [Strong Black Woman] was killing me softly. (1999, 87) Essentially, Morgan refused to continue life as a mule, and she began questioning a gender role that left her...
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Revisiting Blu's Hanging: A Critique of Queer Transgression in the Lois-Ann Yamanaka Controversy
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 32–53.
Published: 01 September 2010
... could do. Byclosing with a nonheteronormative family that functions as the mechanism for potential salvation, the novel interrogates the presumptive value of normatively wrought conceptions of family and home as the places and spaces of safety and innocence. (Chuh 2003, 144) Although the sustaining...
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Everything’s Connected: An Interview with Aurora Levins Morales
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the disability justice movement in which she participates. Applying Anzaldúa’s theory to her experience, she elaborates Anzaldúa’s “Coatlicue state” as it arises from bodily pain that “takes me to the core, to the place of new insight” as “the only salvation is to expand, to embrace every revelation of my...
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Mixedblood Mediation and Territorial Re-Inscription in Ceremony
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 157–178.
Published: 01 September 2000
... narrative thread, is taken at a number of levels: the physical activity includes all the five senses, as well as the spatial and sexual; the mental journey involves both memory and imagination; the spiritual element is necessary forTayo's salvation, as well as the good of the people; and the emotional tasks...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's Orient: Cosmopolitan Travel and Global Feminist Subjects
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 219–240.
Published: 01 September 2001
... been taughtto think of the East as the opposite of the West. So once it was established that the collapse and decay of Europe was a simple, inescapable fact, the renaissance and flowering of the Orient became a fact equally obvious. For Europeans, the Orient held salvation and a new life. It had...
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Feminist or Simply Feminine?: Reflections on the Works of Nana Asmā'u, a Nineteenth-Century West African Woman Poet, Intellectual, and Social Activist
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to Allah toward their own salvation. What we see in representations of the modern Islamic woman, for example the CNN documentary on Afghan women, BehindtheVeil,are the unfortunate "innovations" of the past few centuries, or in the case of the Hausa-Islamic Muslim women of northern Nigeria, a backslide...
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Signifying Sistas: Black Women’s Humor and Intersectional Poetics
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 185–205.
Published: 01 April 2022
... manifestation of the constraints placed on middle-class white women; however, this would not have been the case for Terry Prince. As a servant, she would have worn a more serviceable gown, which suggests that, even if she had been in that situation, her subjugated status would have proved to be her salvation...
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Blurred Genres, Blended Memories: Engendering Dissidence in Nawal el Saadawi's Memoirs of a Woman Doctor and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 93–116.
Published: 01 March 2006
... experience of words in a text or the ecstasies and intensities of various private religions-is only to strengthen the grip of Necessity over all such blind zones in which the individual subject seeks refuge, in pursuit of a purely individual, a merely psychological, project of salvation. (Jameson 1981, 20...
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