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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 503–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
... times a month since August, when I had decided to withdraw from graduate school and move back home to become my mother’s caregiver. Our conversations were never very long. She would ask how I was doing and ask about my mother. I would ask her how she was doing and inquire about what stories she...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 128–145.
Published: 01 March 2002
... philosophical traditions. Jyotirmoyee's writings-essays, poetry, novels, short stories, and memoirscover a wide terrain of subjects ranging from education and gainful employment for women, Hindu women's rights to property and to divorce in the Hindu Code Bill, the Jaipur aristocracy, the condition...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 March 2005
... States in sixteen years. This scene is reminiscent of the tragic story of fourteen Mexicans who died of exposure to extreme heat in the Arizona desert during the summer of 2001. They, too, traveled north across the barren desert with dreams of finding jobs in the United States. The search for better...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 201–207.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Julietta Hua Abstract Human trafficking has gained attention world-wide, and stories about victimization and violence help to define the so-called underground activities of trafficking. Rather than ask what counts as an instance of human trafficking, this essay considers how we come to see one...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Moon Charania Abstract This essay takes on ghosts as an explicit analytic lever to examine the storied archive of one racial and racialized m other . It defines ghosts as conglomerating and attached energies whose nodes of human connection rely on the lived experience of violence, violation...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 91–97.
Published: 01 September 2011
... condition, even in prose and poetry, our words from January 12th are laced with strands of critical observation. This collection seeks both to honor the feminist tradition of using different genres to tell stories and also to assure that the blurring of these genres does, in fact, offer a more nuanced...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Anene Ejikeme Abstract This essay argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Headstrong Historian” offers a woman’s perspective on the Igbo encounter with European colonialism, a history made famous by Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart who told the story from a male perspective...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... I open the essay with the fact of Pleasant's erasure by documenting her historiographical absence and then go on to explain how Cliff ghostwrites Pleasant's story through a narrative of strategic adjacencies. Cliff enmeshes Pleasant's story with those of others engaged in contrapuntal history...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 106–123.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Carol Bailey Abstract Jamaica Kincaid's compact and succinct story “Girl,” the lead story in the collection At the Bottom of the River (1983), has been lauded as one of the premier works in Kincaid's corpus, particularly her discourse on the making of “woman” in postcolonial Caribbean contexts...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Vanita Reddy Abstract This essay examines Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri's literary engagements with cosmopolitan Indian beauty and style in her short stories “Sexy” and “Interpreter of Maladies” (2003). It situates these engagements as part of a transnational beauty assemblage...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chinyere Okafor Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques, this paper also explores the tales told to understand how queer people in the Caribbean create a home of recognition...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., classist, and racist ones—she argues that the book references such tales at length to highlight their widespread power while also challenging their problematic ideologies. The simultaneous engagement with and contestation of these stories are what makes Cisneros’s text revisionist and disidentificatory...
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Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 182–209.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of these themes by examining the fields of international relations and Iraqi studies to show how the story of Assyrians is invisible or unintelligible across these fields of political science and Middle East studies. Moreover, what the Assyrian story tells us about these disciplines and the multiplicity...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 126–165.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the Women's Committee of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Beal's story captures the challenges of anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist organizing with a gender perspective. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 FRANCES M. BEAL AND LORETTA J. ROSS Excerpts from the Voiceos...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Deepti Misri Abstract: This article explores how Shauna Singh Baldwin's novel What the Body Remembers builds on Partition feminist historiography in order to exhume and retell the story of family violence against women during India's Partition, intended to “save their honor” from rioting mobs...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 208–226.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Carrie N. Baker Abstract This essay analyzes the portrayal of sex trafficking in representative dramas and documentaries, both Hollywood and independent films. The majority of these films use a rescue narrative to tell the story of sex trafficking: an innocent and naïve young woman or girl...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
... a feminist, politically engaged reading of these texts that not only recovers silenced stories of sexual violence and racialized oppression, but also foregrounds women's embodied subjectivity. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 WIEBKE BEUSHAUSEN Sexual Citizenship and Vulnerable Bodies in Makeda...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 40–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ashley N. Patterson; Arianna Howard; Valerie Kinloch Abstract The topic grounded in this essay was inspired by the interactions had and stories shared by an intergenerational group of Black women (including the three coauthors) who termed their regular meetings “the Black Women’s Gathering Place...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Celeste Henery Abstract This essay proposes diaspora as a love story—a tale of how black women create new possibilities for black collectivity through their writing. The experiences and affect of black women, born of their racial and gendered subjectivity, remain a less explored dimension...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Sam Vásquez Abstract Paule Marshall’s short story “To Da-duh” offers a pioneering theorization of transnationalism for black Caribbean women, particularly Barbadian women. Examining black female characters’ navigation of archetypcal environments in symbolically loaded vehicles and interrogating...
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