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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 130–143.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of bodies and voices—through their public performances. In the tourist zones the classificatory eye looks upon a sanitized space, producing, in concert with the ear, ordered visual and aural landscapes evocative of the “authentic” Cuba. I suggest that sound can make visible spatial practice. Las Krudas...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 September 2010
... image and sound, as cultural productions, are always in circulation beyond the scope of the nation, and their own “original” referents). Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 SAMANTHA PINTO "WhyMustAll GirlsWantto be FlagWomen PostcoloniaSlexualitieNs,ationaRl eception...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 April 2024
... as a theoretical performance activism against the Western (and Japanese imperial) notion of Indigenous peoples as less-than-human. By using bodies, sound, and sensations, these performers define Ainu Indigeneity in their own terms, and achieve an Ainu Indigenous critique of the “human,” the concept that is built...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to provide a counterpoint against which a modern and national Brahmanical womanhood could be articulated. The author brings together a constellation of events that participated in the construction of Indian womanhood, especially the rise of sound film against the backdrop of growing anticolonial...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in voice, but also race (e.g., the South Asian Apu's "brown voice" on TheSimpsons)g, ender (male voices as opposed to female ones), sexuality ("He sounds so gay!" is an oft heard, sometimes homophobic, comment in U.S. society), and ethnicity or regional affiliation (Shamshad Begum's "heavier Punjabi...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 8–13.
Published: 01 April 2019
... with sound reaching out, bouncing back. totorobonsu moved through depths unseeable. darkness with no beginning and no end. though i am nothing, totorobonsu is now. here. boda remembered the whale god. boda remembered the whale was god. boda remembered the world was made by breathing. boda remembered...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 101.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Lee Peterson Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 LEE PETERSON AntiBonteo Ismene for Baghdad They say in the palace I am lost, fell-or a ghost-hounding the marble halls. I do hunt, but in a peace betrayed by all thisfalse whispers bombs blowing south horns sounding. Not alone-the dead...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 295–320.
Published: 01 October 2020
... or improve their accent to remove this stigma, as they reflect below: Latina Peruvian Faculty Member: I tried to get rid of my Spanish accent to sound more like a “gringa.” I would phone different 1-800 numbers to inquire for products that I could not afford at the time. I asked questions and recited...
View articletitled, Different When I Opened My Mouth: Experiences, Reflections, and Perspectives of Faculty Members with Foreign English Accents in Higher Education
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 80–86.
Published: 01 March 2004
... with a coin in her hand, would gha. I remember that it sounded like that across my bones: ghagha gha. Like a deep echo in my ears. It wasn't the same in English tongue: scrape scrape scrape. It didn't feel like a scrape. Some things just don't translate. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2004, vol. 4...
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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 (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... figure (an accretion of caricatures, as Hortense Spillers has shown), allowing her instead to enter in the flesh into the public conversation to which she has been denied access (Spillers 1987 ). Blige here majestically reinforces Lindon Barrett’s powerful contention that “the singing voice sounds...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 September 2011
... using the toilet to making love. But, whatever you are doing, stop and make a run for it into the clear. An onomatopreia, Goudougoudou mimics the sound that the buildings made when the earth shook everything on its surface and leveled structures that were not earthquake-proof. The mere mention...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 503–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
... was hoping to do an interview with you after your performance.” “That sounds fine.” Diane paused. “Lashon, where are you from?” “I’m from Miami.” “You don’t sound like you’re from Miami.” “Well, I just spent the last four years in New Orleans.” “No, I’m from New Orleans. You don’t sound like...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to say she was picking up the T-shirts and would soon be back. Those of us in the office were scurrying back and forth-crossing names off oflists, packing bags I felt a rumbling beneath my feet. And heard a strange sound, a very loud strange sound. I don't remember if you said anything, but I felt your...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... adventurous recording artist Alicia Keys nonetheless gave mention to this dilemma in her breakthrough 2001 video for "Fallin In the custody of the police, Beyonce struggles and writhes, is brought to her knees, and is dragged by her arms and legs. The image no doubt sounds an alarm of its own, one that should...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... Shipsandtrainsfull withhumancar.90; someescapedo,therslost(unrecovmdJ. Consciousness arouses a peculiar language scouring for image and sound to form words vindicating wounds inflicted out/in side the sacred feminine, authenticating black women's lives from the wreck of fixed notionsmammy, whore, wench, mule...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 157–160.
Published: 01 September 2018
... a beachy-enough-sounding English name to get your point across. Name your women after all of nature's treasures: Pearl, Isla, Margarita, Aqua. For the men, just throw in something that sounds powerful and exotic, like Togo, Azizi, Manu, or Jabari. If you so choose to go against the grain and include...
View articletitled, How to Write about Hawai'i: A Guide to the Handling of Indigenous Characters, Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina's “How to Write About Africa”
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 184–204.
Published: 01 September 2018
... writers interiority southern fiction black feminism There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. —Zora Neale Hurston...
View articletitled, “Where Do You Go When You Go Quiet?”: The Ethics of Interiority in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Beyoncé
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and destruction that have turned the land “into killing fields” (Pou 2015 : 133). The pathologizing of identities in mainstream nationalist discourses is further mirrored in inversions of nature and altered landscapes: “The sounds and sights / Have altered / In my hills,” cries the poet (157). The land...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 84–93.
Published: 01 June 2016
...: tantasin the original Brazilian Portuguese. Indicates the sound of the drums used in African rutals. As in numerous Black communities of the Americas, it is a sound emitted from a particular drum, the tam-tam· 3. Quilombo-gathering: aquilombar:from quilombo,a historically communal place of resistance...
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