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Figure 1. Poster with the text “We will never forget Obiora,” referring to Eugene Ejike Obiora who was killed by Trondheim police in 2006. Seen in the city center of Trondheim. Photo by Oda-Kange Diallo.

Poster with the text “We will never forget Obiora,” referring to Eugene Eji...

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in Writing Letters as Counter-Archiving: An Afro-Nordic Feminist Care Practice > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. Poster with the text “We will never forget Obiora,” referring to Eugene Ejike Obiora who was killed by Trondheim police in 2006. Seen in the city center of Trondheim. Photo by Oda-Kange Diallo. More
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Sara Baartman and the “Inclusive Exclusions” of Neoliberalism

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Sheila Lloyd
Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 212–237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.2.212
Published: 01 March 2013
...Sheila Lloyd Abstract This essay examines three African-American feminist texts—Elizabeth Alexander's “The Venus Hottentot,” Barbara Chase-Riboud's Hottentot Venus , and Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus . In their nuanced critiques of the sovereign power of neoliberalism as both a sociopolitical...
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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
.... My analysis shows how the text's layering of perspectives around this body encodes a feminist hermeneutics of doubt and models a critical practice of “reading between the lines” in order to recover the violence suppressed in the text of patriarchal memory. Furthermore, I argue, the woman's...
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Not No Rapunzel: The House on Mango Street’ s Revised Ever After

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Laura Halperin
Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8308420
Published: 01 October 2020
... and inflects a U.S. Third World feminist analysis by examining how the narrative draws attention to the ways gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class are entwined. Rather than view the text as an outright rejection of the dubious premises and promises provided by fairy tales—individualist, (hetero)sexist...
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“Hello, War Brides”: Heteroglossia, Counter-Memory, and the Auto/biographical Work of Japanese War Brides

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Ayaka Yoshimizu
Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 111–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/mer.2009.10.1.111
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ayaka Yoshimizu Abstract This article examines “Hello, War Brides,” a series of short, auto/biographical essays authored by two Japanese war brides from the state of Washington. I view this text as a product of collaborative “memory work.” Based on a textual analysis of its narratives and form, I...
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Performance and the Gendered Body in Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl” and Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice

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Carol Bailey
Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 106–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.2010.10.2.106
Published: 01 March 2010
.... The text is essentially a set of instructions offered by an adult (assumed to be a mother), laying out the script for the performance of womanhood in the fictional society in which the female child is expected to live and perform her gender. “Girl”'s emphasis on performative acts reiterates...
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Covert Wars in the Bedroom and Nation: Motherwork, Transnationalism, and Domestic Violence in Black Widow's Wardrobe and Mother Tongue

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Leigh Johnson
Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 149–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.2.149
Published: 01 March 2013
...Leigh Johnson Abstract This article argues that, as a tool for social justice and resistance, the concept of motherwork can be usefully applied to two texts by Chicana writers—Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe and Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue . The essay draws on Patricia Hill Collins's...
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Building the Neo-Archive: Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return

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Erica L. Johnson
Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.12.1.149
Published: 01 March 2014
... many of these texts into dialogue with one another, and she explores as well the dialogue between such texts and the dozens of archival fragments she incorporates into her self-portrait. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 ERICA L. JOHNSON Buildingthe Neo-Archive: DionneBrand'As Mapto the Door...
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Where Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity

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Ayesha Hardison
Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 88–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.12.1.88
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ayesha Hardison Abstract This essay examines black women's transition from cultural consumers to artistic producers in Martha Southgate's under-studied novel Third Girl from the Left . Analyzing the text's exploration of black women's misrepresentation in popular film and mainstream narratives...
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Queering the Chicana/o Archive in Felicia Luna Lemus’s Like Son

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Emily Lederman
Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7297147
Published: 01 April 2019
... identity. This essay asks whether, and how, inheritances can be curated and posits that queer archival practices are useful for simultaneously drawing from and rejecting powerful familial and cultural legacies. At the end the essay situates Like Son as part of a group of contemporary Chicana/o texts...
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The Unforgetting of Claribel Alegría: Reckoning with Capitalist Catastrophe in El Salvador

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Guadalupe Escobar
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266404
Published: 01 October 2024
...Guadalupe Escobar Abstract This essay examines women’s perspectives on Salvadoran memory struggles that reckon with enmeshed military repression and US colonial capitalism. The two texts by Central American writer Claribel Alegría investigated here, the novel Ashes of Izalco (1966; trans. 1989...
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Figure 1. “Moody, approximately age 14,” age estimate courtesy of Frances Jefferson, sister of Anne Moody. Frances Jefferson text message to Leigh Ann Wheeler and shared with author, October 30, 2019. Creator: Unknown. Courtesy of the Board of Directors, Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture, Natchez, Mississippi.

“Moody, approximately age 14,” age estimate courtesy of Frances Jefferson, ...

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in Coming of Age with Anne Moody: Looking Within and Without for the Origins of Black Women’s Activism in the Civil Rights Movement > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 1. “Moody, approximately age 14,” age estimate courtesy of Frances Jefferson, sister of Anne Moody. Frances Jefferson text message to Leigh Ann Wheeler and shared with author, October 30, 2019. Creator: Unknown. Courtesy of the Board of Directors, Natchez Museum of African American History More
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Revisiting the Second Wave: In Conversation with Mary King

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Elizabeth Jacobs
Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 102–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2007.7.2.102
Published: 01 March 2007
... and transatlantic War Resisters League Liberation magazine, and became a key text of second-wave feminism. Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 ELIZABETH JACOBS Revisitingthe Second Wave InConversatiownith MaryKin_g Abstract ThisinterviewbetweenProfessoMr aryKingandElizabetJhacobstookplaceattheRothermere...
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“Roll It Gal”: Alison Hinds, Female Empowerment, and Calypso

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Jennifer Thorington Springer
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.93
Published: 01 September 2008
... or disrespectful. Simultaneously, in her claim of being “de ruffest gal winer” that no man/woman can test, Hinds's own dance performance becomes a subversive text and not merely dance as aesthetic pleasure. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 JENNIFER THORINGTON SPRINGER "RollIt Gal" AlisonHinds...
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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
... the Bombay score in order to show how a number of interrelated fundamentalist debates are alluded to in the text itself. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 ALEXANDRA LYNN BARRON Fire'sQueer Anti-Communalism Abstract Whilemanycriticshavepointedout howFire's (1996)receptionrevealsmuchaboutthe...
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Birthed and Buried: Matrilineal History in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven

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Jennifer J. Smith
Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 141–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.9.1.141
Published: 01 September 2009
... of menstruation, miscarriages, hemorrhages, and womb images alongside death suggest that relying on a relationship among blood, land, and identity is always already limiting, even as the novel maintains that such relationships remain the best hope for resisting oppression. The lack of a future in the text...
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“A Real Feminine Journey”: Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts

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Nancy Marie Mithlo
Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2009.9.2.1
Published: 01 March 2009
... feminisms? Drawing from Native women artists' narratives, transnational feminist scholarship, and ethnographic and historical texts, the author demonstrates how indigenous communities become gendered communities as a result of colonialism. Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 NANCY MARIE MITH LO...
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Introduction

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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 66–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.2010.10.2.66
Published: 01 March 2010
.... Paula J. Giddings, focusing on the Eleanor Roosevelt biography, provides a “biography of a biography,” noting appreciatively the nuanced text and rich portrait provided of E.R.'s relationships with men and women. Former students Debra Schultz and Marcia Gallo celebrate not only Cook's pioneering work...
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In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John

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Sam Vásquez
Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.12.1.58
Published: 01 March 2014
... like Latin America. However, building on relatively recent attempts to locate Morrison in broader transnational spaces, in this discussion, I propose closely examining a text from another Anglophone, African diasporic context, which utilizes many of the strategies evident in Bluest —Kincaid's Annie...
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Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature

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Flávia Santos de Araújo
Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 148–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.14.1.10
Published: 01 June 2016
...Flávia Santos de Araújo Abstract This essay takes an intersectional and transnational approach to analyze how selected poetic texts by contemporary Afro-Brazilian writers Conceição Evaristo, Esmeralda Ribeiro Cristiane Sobral, Miriam Alves, and Elisa Lucinda (re)design portrayals of Afro-descendant...
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