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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 115–116.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Tamara Wong-Morrison Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 CHICKEN FEET, CHICKEN TamaraWong-Morrison SOUP Samantha -that was her name, my Easter chick, one of those dyed purple or pink chicks that chirp around the Easter bunnies displayed at the store. Somehow I ended up with her...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Japanese couple adjusting to life in America - the woman showing her willingness to acquiesce to her husband's notion of Americanization, until it crosses the line of taste. Tamara Wong-Morrison's "Chicken Feet, Chicken Soup," a reference to a flavorful local Chinese dish, recounts the demise...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 257–260.
Published: 01 September 2004
... is now characterized by regret and detachment: Her world was nappies chicken soup and the fence now alone she seeks defence Life has passed me by while I cleaned up the floor (32-37) "Waiting for the Rain" and "Card Reader Encounter" also address underachievement and despair. In the former poem...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 92–116.
Published: 01 September 2004
...," where she links cooking and writing in a reciprocal metaphorical relation. Women's cooking gestures are poetic acts, just as writing becomes a "survival soup" (Danticat 1996, 220). These interchangeable activities establish a link between the formerly divided: past and present, local and global, mother...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 177–182.
Published: 01 September 2009
... could have imagined such focus and commitment? Oh, and the food people! Jackie, who came every day with somethingat least twice during those last two weeks with a full roasted turkey dinner, complete with soup, salad and dessert. For election night, she brought an ice cream cake with Barack Obama's...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 80–86.
Published: 01 March 2004
...,they don't care, just as long as you don't steal the rice." As she shapes her hands into a bowl she tells me: "In the day though, they just give you this much Anae.It's like rice soup, all water with a little bit of rice. Maybe twenty grains in it ifl lucky. Then I work and work all day." All I can picture...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., and the proliferation of "emergency" food banks and soup kitchens as a response. Unfortunately, Poppendieck only addresses gender and race/ethnicity in passing, mainly to note that those who patronize food banks and soup kitchens are disproportionately people of color (see, e.g., 249). But she does make clear...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Enriqueta prepare for the festivities, but then sees that she already has plenty of kitchen staff, as a maid serves her a bowl of soup. Doña María realizes that she is not wanted in her daughter’s home, stares sadly at the soup, and takes off her black shawl. In a comforting gesture, the maid remarks, “Poor...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 6–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to leave. Neither turtle soup nor kidney pie nor any conch shell delight shall delay my departure. I have rested, here, in the Bahamas, and I'm ready to return to my usual job, my usual work. But the skin on my body has changed and so has my mind. On the Delta flight home I realize I am burning up, indeed...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 358–371.
Published: 01 October 2019
... there is a lot of brains packed in there, so your head is stretched out.” The kid imagined a mass of furiously twisted brains with boiling soup ladled over them, then poured into the skull and sealed for decades under concentrated tenderizing pressure from parents and peers. Was the on/off button in the space...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... preparation routine organized by the narrator and her family to provide a sense of structure amid chaos: "Food is usually cooked by Suha and Amal, and sometimes by Ma, though her main responsibility is making bread and cakes. Mine is making the soups and salads. I pick and clean all the salad materials...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 229–245.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of this African soup bone? ) Geneva and I see things differently. We suspect Dad knew, if he owned a gun, that he might have killed someone. I feel certain my father is the only person who would have killed and died for us. So it was good news that plenty of other people—neighbors across the street, friends...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
... for Lilith’s spilling hot soup on a guest during the Montpellier New Year’s Eve ball, the slaveholder Humphrey orders the overseer, Robert Quinn, to have her whipped at a scheduled time every day for about three weeks. In response to this repeated punishment, the six women undertake a collective act...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... friend calls a "one-woman resistance movement." She has organized soup kitchens, received hundreds of foreign visitors and carried messages from her husband in prison. (Whitaker and Manning 1985a, 35) If her early life story was told, it was offered merely as the preamble to her life with Nelson Mandela...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 414–444.
Published: 01 October 2019
... production, like Campbell’s soup cans or the Sunday comics. Furthermore, it pops open viewers’ subconscious thoughts, quite literally represented by the cartoon text clouds associated with this genre that visually convey the internal monologues or anxieties of their subjects. In Gabara’s Pop América...
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