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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Kelli Moore Abstract This review essay discusses recent exhibitions and accompanying art books published at the threshold of Black philosophy and aesthetics in relation to feminist mourning practices: Nicole Fleetwood’s book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 440–445.
Published: 01 October 2023
... thresholds migration motherhood Mexico walls Lienzo, At some point you will ask me about your name, and I will share this letter with you, which is also about my own experiences navigating borders and cleaved spaces. Even though you are only sixteen months, I write this letter to initiate...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): v.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and hip-hop, I wondered if there was an entire volume's worth of interesting ideas to explore-and if such an issue could reach the threshold of what Meridiansreaders would expect. The questions were answered when we received these essays and the fine introduction by the co-editors. Indeed, I realized how...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 261–266.
Published: 01 March 2004
... found the eyes of their fathers stuck closed, though the men wailed with wide open mouths about their losses. Shame, shame on the dragons that would drown the nation. Their daughters left for dead, pristine still from the moment their slender feet crossed the threshold of the courtyard gate. 262 FRANCES...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 179–186.
Published: 01 September 2000
... by multiple border crossings, languages, voices. I try to brood on the palimpsest of memory, intrinsic to making up the present. In this way, each moment of reflection becomes a threshold. 3 Though Virginia Woolf in no way entered consciously into my mind as I wrote FaultLinesit seems to me now, in hindsight...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 168–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... that are culturally symbolic and cannot be translated, they become a secret code. When I use language , people can read it. That 's another reason why I chose Urdu, because I knew most people would not be able to read it. 178 RANU SAMANTRA I Threshold COSMOPO LIT AN CARTOGRAP HIE S 179 Samantrai: What about...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... right to left and back again As befits divinity. He edges to the window, trying to peer At the gates of the Golden Threshold. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2010, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 6-8] © 2010 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 6 The Nightingale oflndia grown heavy in her years, lived...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of everything. Your pillow stained with white tosses as a wave might on our southern shore. Will you lay your cheek against mine? Bless my bent head? Youwashed me once, gave me suck, made me live in your father's house taught me to wake at dawn, sweep the threshold clean of blood-red leaves. Showed me a patch...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 157–178.
Published: 01 September 2000
... terrain of American exploration, a feat she seeks to accomplish using threshold and 162 MARILYN MILLER hybrid images that not only redraw the landscape, but also, in fact, challenge the modes of thinking that allowed for the colonial imagining of fixed frontiers, which divide land and establish racial...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the funereal space with the echo of Hagar, the missing space between them. Song of Solomon begins and ends with collective witnessing amid death. The question of mercy, in Morrison’s iteration, is the distance between thresholds, the boundary marker delineating the grieved, lost, and retrieved...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 141–162.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the land. Anne McClintock describes the process by which the colonizer connected the colonial space to the female body: As European men crossed the dangerous thresholds of their known worlds, they ritualistically feminized borders and boundaries. Female figures were planted like fetishes at the ambiguous...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
...-ARCHIVE 153 use Chakrabarty's term, and that there is a full temporal enmeshment between the past and the present (see Dirlik 1997; Chakrabarty 2007; and Spivak 2009}.This is the premise ofBrand's presentation of the Door of No Return, the historical threshold on the west coast of Africa through which...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 85–109.
Published: 01 September 2000
... -also defined as an activity of border- or threshold-crossing-does not aim to fortify a ground, territory, or place to stand. Within its logic, "there are no ultimate answers, no terminal utopia . . . . [Its practice must] not become static" (23 n. 58).9 But how is this mobile practice, born...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 177–194.
Published: 01 March 2006
... in instigating change. The preceding leaves little doubt that the society is at an epochal moment or, at least, poised at its portentous threshold, and more so, with the media represented here as the locus of cultural negotiations and contestations. Thus Colle's red radio, a gift from the doctor who delivered...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 229–245.
Published: 01 April 2021
... messing with Excell Perry’s girls? Waiting for my father to come home, I sometimes imagined Jay forcing the beige, rounded tips of his new Timberlands past the threshold of our front door. What girl would have bought Jay those Timberlands? My sister, or someone else? Months earlier, my mother...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 106–123.
Published: 01 March 2010
....8 112 MERIDIANS 10:2 The young females in BuxtonSpiceplay in ways not uncommon among children. In one of their main games the pubescent females recreate male-female interactions and gendered behaviors in the domestic space. It is significant that these young females are on the threshold of puberty...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2013
... historian KayTurner wrote a book on women's altars titled BeautifuNl ecessitwy here she defines the altar as a "place between divine and human realms, a threshold charged with exchange" (Turner 1999, 29). AA: The quote is beautiful. I think it's very appropriate. It's just perfect. I grew up in Mexico City...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 October 2021
... modernity. Race in this context is defined as a cultural marking system and the veil as a symbol and tangible material object; a threshold separating the Orient and the Occident, religious and secular, traditional and modern, and barbaric and civilized. The veiled Muslim woman became a symbol of the “dark...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
... normative frameworks of mourning and their sexed/gendered thresholds. Theorizing touch and gaze as essential aspects of the care work for the dead—referring to who can touch and gaze at the deceased body and how—I examine the formation of tactile intimacies and the limits of sexed/gendered belonging...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Watch . 2021 . “ A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution .” Human Rights Watch , April 27 . Jad Islah . 2018 . Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Lazreg Marnia...
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