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... . Durham : Duke University Press . carrington andré . 2017 . “ Spectacular Intimacies: Texture, Ethnicity, and a Touch of Black Cultural Politics .” Souls 19 , no. 2 : 177 – 95 . Davis Angela . 1994 . “ Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia .” Critical Inquiry 21...

... of care represent the deceased body in strictly gendered ways. For instance, the coffin design, the prayers at the mosque, the washing ritual prior to burial, and the rites of inhumation are different for women and men. This article examines the intimate economies of touch that take place while preparing...

...Erica L. Johnson Abstract Dionne Brand's memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging , touches on the author's childhood in Trinidad and adulthood in Canada but is equally concerned with understanding and intervening in the larger histories among which Brand situates her identity...

... to immaterial energies that shift the fecund terrain of both life and death. Read the article: httpsmuse.jhu.edu/article/871064 2023 Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award Honorable Mention Asl Zengin for her article Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey, Meridians 21...

... know how to elevate use our bodies to tell a story of middle passage. of survival of lynchings you have always loved our bodies under your control. don't you touch me. don't you take me down. murderers. don't you touch my body. don't touch my music. don't touch my patience. don't touch my car door...

... or woundedness, but on the possibility of bodies being able to touch and merge across place and time. The Latin root for the word territory can mean land, but it can also mean to terrorize, to make tremble, to exclude (Elden 2009 : xxiv). While the lienzo is a form of bordering that is connective and live...

... words, bounced off my skin to become so many blue and black butterflies. Blows, strong blows, touched my skin and lo, underneath bloomed a thousand splendid roses, crimson and scarlet. I gagged on my husband’s juices, and a river flowed through me. On the waters, there floated a song. I shackled my soul...

... of subjugated histories of violence, massacres, and genocide is axiomatic in Asli Zengin’s intervention, “Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey.” But what of death’s sensorial and sensual aspects—touch in the form of corpse washing and caressing and kissing the deceased...

... particularly apt final words for this issue, which was curated with the faith that putting widely disparate pieces in touch with one another would yield something beautiful. “How mighty. The God portal of human touch,” Kamara muses, expanding on her earlier evocation of “haptic grace.” I agree—when we...

... in front of Grandfather's picture. The smell feels thick within my nostrils. I know it will be in my hair when I leave. She attempts to reach her back with the coin, but cannot touch the skin there. Her arms are not long enough. She looks tired. The doctor told her this morning she has made herself sick...

... of anger and frustration by women, when women are confronted, punished, threatened by men who are old enough to be their sons, that's extremely humiliating, because whatever you do as a man, you must not touch your mother. Youcannot beat your mother. You cannot hurt your mother. So, what these women were...

... Letter" on my website, and it went viral. Her comments touched a chord among those who love Tubman, particularly when she wrote that she was "sick, and very tired of the ongoing denigration of our people in the name of art, or some other hifalutin' acts of hubris and juvenile chutzpah" and that Simmons's...

..., laid bare for the imperial table. Head held high, she feigned ignorance of her own demise. Her tiny yellow fluffies touched wingspans, vowed to avenge her. They expounded on dialectical points, lollygaged at The Hague, Scratched and squawked, pecked at ankles. But stood silent as the masses devoured...

... under twine of a hay bundle and twist it to a binding tightness. It was pleasing to the touch of the sixteenth-century peasant who worked with it harvesting crops. What inventive inquisitor devised to use it on accused women, saw in it an instrument of execution, first employed it to twist breath from...

... the ashes over the water. I held my fingers under the slow fall of ashes, letting it coat my hand. I touched my fingers to my lips. "Your body is mine," I told my mother, "so you will always be with me, even when your spirit finds its way home. To Korea. To Sulsulham. And across the river of heaven...

... could feel the whole side of her body warm up, [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2014, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 31-35) © 2014 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 31 her hair, her face, her wrinkled sheets. She got out from beneath her covers and touched all the warm parts of herself. Lying...

...: On Blackness and Being , Tina Campt’s Listening to Images , and Michelle D. Commander’s Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic take up Saidiya Hartman’s groundbreaking consideration of the “aftereffects of slavery.” Stitt argues that together these texts—which touch...

...Phillip B. Williams Copyright © 2013 by Smith College 2013 PHILLIP WILLIAMS The Caretaker Ifl let a man touch me like this he'll make a home where his mama had for him in her laid there a knocked down manikin I'm sure he never thought about womb returning to it just thought he'd layin me...

.... I see this land the way I want to remember, do the same for childhood love.The rough hand that touched me but didn't scrape down to bone. Like those Africans choking down mouthfuls of home before they were loaded onto the boats, this place might move through me soon and be gone.- The clucking...

... about her She called familiar. There was a broom she never touched leaning against the far wall in the corner. ABOUT THE AUTHOR JacquelineBishop'smost recent book, TheGymnast& OtherPositionsh, as been awarded the 2016 OCM Bocas Award in Non-Fiction. She has also received the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize...