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Between Skin and Stone: A Letter to My Son, Lienzo
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 440–445.
Published: 01 October 2023
... west from the playas of Tijuana, east to the Gulf of Mexico. The lienzo is only as tall as the human body alone can build. It is made of stones that have been hugged to the chest, hoisted from the stretch of thighs and torso, and arranged to press into and against one another. One day when we...
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Ghostwriting Transnational Histories in Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
... about Pleasant, who provided major funding and leadership in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859—and indeed the stone that marks her grave reads simply: “M. E. P. She was a friend of John Brown”—because her role in the raid and in U.S. abolition is absent from nearly all historical documentation...
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Objects
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 201–202.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Mirta Yañez; Sonia Feigenbaum Objects Objects succumb defenseless to the disguise of time. Let us take, for example, this stone, this small and bare stone that I found in a drawer. Where did it come from? How long has it been here? How did it get here? Who brought it? Why have I kept it? Each...
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I Am Queen Mary
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 229–230.
Published: 01 April 2023
...), appearing as a counterpart to a replica of Michelangelo’s David , the figure sits on top of a plinth made of coral stones cut out of the ocean by enslaved Africans. These stones make visible their labor and presence as foundational to the colonial societies. The figure is an allegorical portrait of Mary...
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The Garden Hyderabad Notebook Cantata for a Riderless Horse (with Sitar and Flute)
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., Or was it a railway track, a spitting fire, a fountain. Where she knelt, crushed stones Endure planetary forms The Milky Wayflattened out, Pluto in darkness. Fragments of time clung together The privilege of self-consciousness thrust aside, Letting us glimpse a natural language Syntax of flesh and stone and root...
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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
... range of experience. As the diary indicates: "I will call this exhibition 'Embargo Art.' All the sculptures, whole families of people made of stone and car parts-busted exhausts and silencers that I collected when I went to mend my silencer The heads are painted stones and come off easily, a recognition...
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‘The Shock of Sensation’: On Reading The Waves as a Girl in India, and as a Woman in America
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 179–186.
Published: 01 September 2000
... at the piano." Even if stones are thrown in the streets, or there are gunshots, riots outside the garden walls, the lady must maintain her seat, be wrapped in meditation, keep writing. It is she who keeps "reality," the word that Woolf puts to such fierce use at the end of A Roomof One'sOwn2. The other figure...
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Editor’s Introduction
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... culturally competent rapport with her informants. The need to develop deep, habitus-based knowledge of (im)migrant communities to understand and advocate effectively for them is also evoked in Michaela Django Walsh’s moving creative nonfiction piece, “Between Skin and Stone: A Letter to My Son, Lienzo...
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Queering the Chicana/o Archive in Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to Los Angeles to bury his father’s things at the beach, a physical act that helps Frank attempt to leave behind destructive baggage: “When my father died, I’d chosen only a few items from his home to remember him by: blind man glasses, walking stick, worry stone, briefcase, and those damned glorious...
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Margins
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 213–214.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in margins, lines drawn in grains of sand. Step closer and you will be surprised at who stands in the corner who lives in a cage who chokes at the horror. Come inside before you cross the lines before you see your brow, your naked heart. Pick up, if you dare a stone, a feather, a seed take it over take...
Image
Published: 01 April 2023
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
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“All That You Can’t Leave Behind”: Surrogation and Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... (presumably for having extensive work done on herself). Further down the B-list ladder, the phenomenal R&B singer-songwriter Angie Stone failed to toe the line on VH1’s reality series Celebrity Fit Club , refusing to work to shed unwanted pounds for most of the season and sparking the ire of former...
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Bruise Blue
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 408–409.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., numb the grins and whispers that swaggered by, accept prayers lingering in wet, kind eyes like river-smoothed stones. She cauterized dreams of tangled amber, body’s newness, thoughts of princely things once promised in dabs of pink gloss, sticky glitter, and a snow-globe’s gilded carousel...
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Elegy for My Father Rites of Sense Black River, Walled Garden Pitfire
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as they pinched and struck. Afternoons I gazed into well water watching a balloon child, A Nowhere-Girl, her flesh striking stone rings as she fell, face tucked into a metal bucket. MEENAALEXANDER BLACK RIVER, WALLED GARDEN 59 IX Somewhere a mirror smashed. Ten thousand bits of glass pierced my sight. I drank...
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101 memories of midnight miracles
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 54–56.
Published: 01 March 2003
... me faraway as a muezzin is from its Beholden but I felt your prophecies cross through me central the web of thread wonder calling to capture love III Together we survived stillborn nights alone I lie unexpected will he beat you singe your soul a fire stone you crazy in love slice your head quick...
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Chicken Feet, Chicken Soup
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 115–116.
Published: 01 September 2000
... kitchen. I hand-picked all those tender grasses for her, she always had clean water to drinkof course she would taste good! Madness makes people do strange things, I had another bowl of Samantha soupthere in front of my stone-cold father. See how delicious she is, I said as I slurped her up. What did he...
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“All That You Can't Leave Behind”: Black Female Soul Singing and the Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... (presumably for having extensive work done on herself). Further down the B-list ladder, the phenomenal R&Bsinger-songwriter Angie Stone failed to toe the line on VH1's reality series CelebrityFitClub,refusing to work to shed unwanted pounds for most of the season and sparking the ire of former...
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Caring for Another Woman
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 69–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of woe and hinged gray lines pointing underground to a mine, uncarved blocks of sadness, marble peaches and pale lavender stone, a bird in a gray velvet suit, a shaft for mineral gradations of gray ashen silver graphite leaden coal for the pale grove of an underground moon surfaces in a lake singing from...
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The Aliens Have Landed!: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., the nation responds in kind to plants and animals. "The alien species invasion-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt of the Clinton Administration calls it an 'explosion in slow motion'- is turning even staunch conservationists into stone killers" (Verrengia 1999a). Like immigration and the drug problems, we need...
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Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2003
... are their bodies deserts, their eyes the ocean deep? Why do women keep their jewels locked in trunks To whom will they bequeath their legacy of grief? Those who were themselves worthy of worship Why do they clutch stones between jasmine fingertips? Those who remained hungry and barefooted Why do they let...
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