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The Vise of Geometry: Distorting Intersectionality at the Scene of Argument

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Barbara Tomlinson
Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 1–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.16.1.03
Published: 01 September 2018
... through the trope of the vise of geometry . Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 BARBARA TOMLINSON TheViseof Geometry:Distorting Intersectionalityat the Scene of Argument Abstract Intersectionathlinkingemergeadsaprovocationin contemporarfyeministstudiesasa politicalandanalyticconcepta...
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Figure 5. Scene from the March. Photo by Adriana Medeiros.

Scene from the March. Photo by Adriana Medeiros.

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in March against Racism and Violence and in Favor of Living Well ( bem viver) , Brasilia 2015 : National Black Women’s March November 18 > Meridians
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 5. Scene from the March. Photo by Adriana Medeiros. More
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M is for Move (scenes from three lifetimes)

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 518–520.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.2.12
Published: 01 March 2017
...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS M is for Move (scenes from three lifetimes) I. youcannotcarrythisin herea, voice said. and she knew it meant her gorgeous leather luggage filled with grief. and her recently polished, frequently restained vanity...
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“Out in the Streets”: Hip-Hop Narratives in Contemporary Greece

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Natalia A. Koutsougera
Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 204–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10220557
Published: 01 April 2023
...Natalia A. Koutsougera Abstract This article provides a socio-anthropological portrayal of the hip-hop narrational mosaics in Greece through the intertemporal exploration of two hip-hop scenes: the rap scene and the hip-hop dance scene. It explores the gray and contested zones of a local hip-hop...
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Rehumanizing Ainu: Performance of Desubjectification and a Politics of Singularity

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Yurika Tamura
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 210–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10926952
Published: 01 April 2024
...Yurika Tamura Abstract This article argues that many contemporary female Ainu performance-activists from the Ainu community of Japan, including a performance scene led by Ainu huci (female elders) at an Ainu cultural education center in Sapporo, Japan, engage in performance of desubjectification...
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Carlota’s Hum: An Archive Fiction

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Alana Perez, Pamela Fernandez
Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9554090
Published: 01 April 2022
... these short four pages to guide her fictional retelling of this historical moment. Other scenes illuminate the ways Black women of the nineteenth century were deeply connected to the nature surrounding them, emphasizing the unique relationship Black and Brown women have had with the land through natural...
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Engendering Protest and Rethinking “Azadi” in Kashmir in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider

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Sreyoshi Sarkar
Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913129
Published: 01 April 2021
... experiences in the conflict zone at intersections of everyday and extraordinary violence. By close reading scenes from the film via cinematic structure, dialogue, acting, camerawork, and mise-en-scène, the author shows how Haider not only mounts a scathing critique of the Indian occupation of Kashmir but also...
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Fire 's Queer Anti-Communalism

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Alexandra Lynn Barron
Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 64–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.2.64
Published: 01 March 2008
... figure of the Hindu-Muslim union that is visible, and, in fact, audible throughout. Two of the songs in Fire come from Bombay (1995) and reference that film's allegory of an inclusive, secular India. In contrast to other critics who focus only on Fire's reception, I read scenes such as the ones featuring...
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“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance

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Samantha Pinto
Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/mer.2009.10.1.137
Published: 01 September 2010
... these Carnival-related performances in relationship to the colonial and national histories of the circulation of Indian and black women's bodies in Trinidad and Tobago, asking what is at stake in these occupations of genre, form, and performative presence in the latest global scenes of late capitalism (where...
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Figure 1. Two screenshots captured from the documentary May Ayim: Hoffnung im Herz (May Ayim: Hope in My Heart) directed by Dagmar Schultz in 1997. It is a scene with footage from a self-made video by Ayim. In the first shot, the poet presents a bulbous Negerkuss (Negro Kiss) candy to the camera, so that it obscures her own face. She stands in front of the steps of a train station, framed by its railings and a blue sign above her head that reads “U-Bhf Mohrenstrasse.” She is surrounded by gray stone buildings. In the second screenshot, she places the marshmallow candy in her mouth and stares into the lens as she chews.

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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. Two screenshots captured from the documentary May Ayim: Hoffnung im Herz ( May Ayim: Hope in My Heart ) directed by Dagmar Schultz in 1997. It is a scene with footage from a self-made video by Ayim. In the first shot, the poet presents a bulbous Negerkuss (Negro Kiss) candy More
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Queering Islam and Muslim Americanness: Perversity, Recognition, and Failure in Usama Alshaibi’s Profane

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Taneem Husain
Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9547980
Published: 01 October 2021
[email protected] Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 After Muna pegs this client, a disgusted look on her face as she works, the scene cuts to Muna in a green, forest-like setting. She smiles and looks at the camera. We hear the jinn speaking. This time, however, the jinn’s whispers are not in the demonic...
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Couwenbergh’s The Rape of the Negress : Visual Violence, Theological Erasure, and Black Feminist Fugitivity

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Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones
Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 146–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10220524
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the Negress . Without diminishing the violences of the painting, I argue that the painting as well as the Black Madonna should be considered sites of Black feminist fugitivity and resistance that call us to reconsider the subjectivity and accountability of such scenes of subjection. Our attentions...
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The Mythical Courtesan: Womanhood and Dance in Transnational India

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Rumya S. Putcha
Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913140
Published: 01 April 2021
... for those groups who do not qualify for affirmative action measures in India. 10 See for example the scene from Maya Bazaar (1957), “Vivaha Bojanumbu,” which highlights the vegetarian food cultures associated with weddings, celebration, and pleasure. For further discussion of the politics of food...
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The Violence of Memory: Renarrating Partition Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers

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Deepti Misri
Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.1
Published: 01 September 2011
... of women's selfsacrifice and were memorialized accordingly. For instance, Urvashi Butalia 2 MERIDIANS 11:1 and Purnima Mankekar have drawn attention to an iconic scene in Govind Nihalani's television series Tamas,in which a large number of Sikh women heroically stride to the communal well in order to commit...
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Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

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Jenny Sharpe
Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 58–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2005-6.1.58
Published: 01 September 2005
... The audience witnesses Delhi street scenes of pushcarts and bicycle rickshaws weaving in and out of cars driving by a monolithic statue ofShiva.3 Golfers ride in golf carts across an immaculately landscaped golf course, while a row of women carrying sand in baskets on their heads (presumably for the sand pits...
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Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Rhinelander Case

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Miriam Thaggert
Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2005-5.2.1
Published: 01 March 2005
... can be seen, what qualifies as a visible marking, is a matter of being able to read a marked body in relation to unmarked bodies, where unmarked bodies constitute the currency of normative whiteness" (1993, 170-71). What the scene at the top of the Drayton reveals is that the "markings" can...
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Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez

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Luz Calvo
Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 201–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004.5.1.201
Published: 01 September 2004
... Chicana fans and late pop star Selena is an excellent example of the way that identification works in Chicana contexts. This identification is the subject of Corpus:A HomeMovie for Selena,a 1999 documentary by Lourdes Portillo. Her film opens with a scene of young Chicana fans lip-synching the songs...
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Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana’a

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Lily Mabura, Ronak Husni
Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 161–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7297191
Published: 01 April 2019
... and was urged to cut a few seemingly controversial elements from the script of A New Day in Old Sana’a during its shooting. 16 Hirsi resisted some of these restrictions, including opposition to the scene where Inès applies nagsh on Frederico’s back. The authorities suggested that she paint on a girl...
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Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma López

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Luz Calvo
Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8565946
Published: 01 December 2020
... but rather a position within a grid that figures racial and sexual difference inside particular social symbolic structures. Cisneros’s description of her horror at the sight of the porn star’s genitals recalls a scenario imagined by Freud: the scene of castration anxiety. In Freud’s scenario, a young...
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Domesticating NATO's War in Kosovo/a: (In)Visible Bodies and the Dilemma of Photojournalism

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Wendy Kozol
Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004-4.2.1
Published: 01 March 2004
.... Juxtaposed to the oral register of torture are photographs of tranquil domestic scenes largely absent of people. The photographs certainly could be read as romanticizing the domestic by associating the private sphere with prewar tranquility. While the audiotape reinforces an association between women...
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