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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...
View articletitled, The Women of <span class="search-highlight">Things</span> Fall Apart , Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie’s Headstrong Storytellers
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 126–165.
Published: 01 March 2008
... When my father was going to Syracuse University, a lot of things were segregated up there, and there were very few places where my father could go on the weekends, so he used hang out with his cousins on the Mohawk reservation and play lacrosse to quote "keep in shape." But in any case, I had told you...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Janell and others have thought of this as well, because of course this is where Harriet Tubman ended up living, and where she died. Also, New YorkState, including Albany, was an important stop on the Underground Railroad. As far as Harriet Tubman's legacy [is concerned], I think the main thing...
View articletitled, What Would Harriet Do? A Legacy of Resistance and Activism: A Conversation with Barbara Smith and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Moderated by Paula Giddings
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
... struggling cells, to resist the impulse to flee, and hold in my awareness both things: the planetary web of life force of which I am part, and the cruel machinery that assaults us” (Anzaldúa 2007 : 68, 88–89; Levins Morales 2013 : 6). With Levins Morales, as with Anzaldúa, living with and through pain...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 19–25.
Published: 01 March 2001
.... My family certainly did similar things when I was a girl. They never discussed some issues openly in front of the children. However, [Meridiansf:eminism,race,transnationalism2001, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 19-25] ©2001 by Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. 19 somehow we always ended up knowing...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2003
... currently holds the distinguished position of Franklin Professor ofEnglish and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. MARGARET c RU MPTO N: What was the first thing you ever wrote that made you think, "I can be a writer?" Ju DI TH o RT I z co FER: I don't recall having that response to my work...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 19–37.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... 20 SOBEi RA LATORRE AND JOANNA L. MITCHELL COYA PAZ: I was on my third show of producing theater that was going to be feminist, woman-centered. I really also wanted to do work that was originally published in Spanish. But I was tired. I wanted to do other things, like open a sex toy store. Tanya had...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 507–517.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the world and there were some really amazing things: early Navajo rugs, a chair from China We always laughed about Madeline because she left us all of this stuff, dolls from Germany, things from South America. Some ofit actually turned out to be valuable and some ofit I was left to play with and now I...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 53–64.
Published: 01 March 2001
... not like I'm dying to have an American name. I'd just like a different Arabic one. There are so many pretty names: Amani, Hala, Rawda, Mawal, and they all mean such pretty things: wishesh, alo,garden,melodynot just the name of a rich old woman. My father would slap me if he heard me say that. I'm sure...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 69–91.
Published: 01 September 2004
... been lucky in that my family has been really supportive in the most important sense. In that if you need things materially, there was always someone to help, even if they didn't have too much themselves. My soul was also fed by family from the time I was a girl. My aunts told lots of stories. My...
View articletitled, Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 518–519.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Gina Athena Ulysse [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 ............ Artist Statement For once they intuited that the human will was long intent on capture, they all conspired to rest their Truth everywhere. And in the simplest of things. Like a raindrop...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 13–21.
Published: 01 December 2020
... tied to every other speck.” But most of us don’t get a chance to have that view. We dwell in closed realms. It’s a frightening thing—how closed our worlds are. I grew up in a closed world because public policy forbade our leaving that world. But today, for the most part, certainly in the United States...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 32–48.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., at the end of the first chapter, that was the printer's devil thing. But the other question I thought was verygood was from the young woman who was sitting here-it was when youjust stepped out of the room-and she said, "Did you ever think of writing another book, a little book with just the [new]material...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 11–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
... who’s the machann was so powerful as a manbo [priestess] in the peristil , and the rest of the week she did herbal work and other similar things. She was suddenly like a queen in the ceremonial context! It was the same way with people in the Protestant church, becoming transformed...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2000
... is Western and elitist. What protects Meridiansfrom that charge is that the word feminismis strongly contextualized by the words raceand transnationalism,which amplify its meaning. I'd say some of the same things about race that I would about feminism. I'm happy to see race highlighted in the journal's title...
View articletitled, Ama Ata Aidoo, Edna Acosta-Belén, Amrita Basu, Maryse Condé, Nell Painter, and Nawal El Saadawi speak on feminism, race, and transnationalism
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., cucumbers. Those kinds of things that we were able to grow, we ate. At the age often, I remember, my father that year did not get an annual job of cotton sharecropper, so that summer was the first summer where he actually had to go out with my sister and some cousins to weed cotton in West Texas. We call...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2013
... calling. I used to draw and work in clay a little bit. My mother made ceramics so I used to be in the studio and do little things with clay but I didn't know it was going to be my calling. I had no idea. VPR: What is the relationship between dancing and art for you? How has dancing influenced your art? AA...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 March 2016
... issues as though we're unaffected by issues of race, as though we're unaffected by the issues that face our broader communities. LR: What were some of the things that the Alliance did that had impact? LB: Some of the issues had to do with reproductive rights: sterilization abuse, in particular...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... But this letter is different. There are things I want to say to you, and I worry I might forget them by the time you are old enough to understand. We are at such different moments in our lives. How strange that this one event has strengthened our bond, yet underscores our differences at the same time. January 12...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... noted, “It was always a fight to be up front.” As a child she received many messages about her position in society: This school was in the community, where the same things happened to me at school that happened at home. In this community in Monte Cristi, the people are a reflection of what’s...
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