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... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...