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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 363–388.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and European/Euro-American hegemony in local and global contexts. This article breaks away from these established theoretical trajectories by arguing that desire for “whiteness” is not the same as desire for “Caucasian whiteness.” Examining advertisements for skin-whitening products in the Indonesian version...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in which Dominicans are the agents of change. This article argues that Indiana’s version of Dominican futurism engages with “negative aesthetics”—defined here as the aesthetics of disorientation, dystopia, and disgust. Negative aesthetics offer a way of staying with the pain and unrest of trauma...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 2010
... advertisements for skin-whitening products in the Indonesian version of Cosmopolitan and skin-tanning products in the American version of Cosmopolitan , I point out the construction of “cosmopolitan whiteness.” Whiteness is not simply racialized or nationalized as such, but transnationalized. Whiteness...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
Published: 01 December 2020
... investments in protecting the Catholic version of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Chicana feminist reinterpretations. To represent the Virgin of Guadalupe’s love interest, López chooses the mermaid from the popular Mexican game lotería. In lotería , as in bingo, players hold a card with a grid. In the Mexican...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2016
... are shared, appropriated, and reworked in order to understand Black women's reality. Thus, Brazilian Black women have built their political autonomy—that is, their ability to read and interpret reality—coming up with their own version of feminist thought based on the concrete and historical experiences...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 64–93.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., a substitution of the name "Nita" for "Sita" was the one change the Indian Film Censor Board required before the Hindi version of Firewas released.3 Radha and Sita are the two main female characters in Hindu mythology; Sita in particular represents the ideal Indian woman for many Hindus. The long-suffering wife...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the companion of) the pachuco. Like pachucos, pachucas had a distinctive look. Many teased their hair into high bouffants (called "rats") and wore what was considered excessive makeup . They usually donned short skirts and long coats (Figure 2), and some wore the masculine version of the zoot suit (complete...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 219–240.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., the construct of the Orient is generated by France and Britain above all other nations (ibid Yetthe United States produces its own orientalisms, or rather, it generates its own specific forms of orientalism as it recuperates other versions. One might even argue that the orientalisms produced through popular...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... [their] neighborhoods with a vagina” well before they are women. The harassment Esperanza faces is but one example of harm in a narrative replete with scenes of sexual violence. Unlike patriarchal versions of “Little Red Riding Hood,” like those created by Perrault or the Grimms, which position Little Red Riding Hood...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 414–444.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., “ . . . Por qué nos odian tanto?” (Why do they/all of you hate us so much?). This cartoon-like version of Coca as Wonder Woman shows her with hand placed on her head in anguish as she poses her question to the viewers. The image of the superheroine icon with tears in her eyes and looking depleted of energy...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 32–48.
Published: 01 March 2008
... didn't give water to grandfather when he died. MA: Right, and I've never known why Ls: And they sort of pinpointed that once having read the end, they understood the beginning better. But I think what struck me is that you're writing the new version when you're fifty rather than when you're forty...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 212–237.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Moreover, in doing so, one need be mindful that these texts are constructed in particular contexts and serve, among other things, the tasks of producing and promoting, to use Olakunle George's formulation, highly invested versions of history (George 1999, 71).It is my claim that transnational feminist...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 389–409.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in opposition to the West (Said 1978 ). Gee demonstrates how the representation of the evil genius’s female incarnation in Daughter of Fu Manchu (1931) is no less Machiavellian. If anything, she is perceived as even more of a danger because she is so beautiful. Examining the cover of the first version...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of empire (Spivak 1988;Marchetti 1993;Hamamoto 1994; Shohat and Stam 1994; Hamamoto and Liu 2000; and Hirabayashi and Xing 2003). Gee's film can be regarded as a celluloid version of this critique of Hollywood as the discourse of empire through its representation of Asian women as ahistorical and frozen...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
... a wound. Except, we got to keep what we need to bear witness. That scar that’s left to bear witness. We got to keep it as visible as our blood” (Jones 1986 : 72). By adapting the original version to this one, I allowed myself to reimagine the silent gestures of the dead who were the original...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 297.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Tom J. Abi Samra Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 Erratum for Tom J. Abi Samra, “Four Editorials from Bint al-Nīl ,” Meridians 20, no. 2 (2021): 323–39. Due to a publisher error, proof corrections to this article were not made when it was first published. The online versions...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
... these lives may offer to one another. This is to say that they do not establish a singular version of events, nor do they "claim" 118 MERIDIANS 9:1 history in some victorious gesture, for as often as they "correct" existing hegemonic narratives or "fill in the gaps" of silenced stories, they also remark...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 298.
Published: 01 April 2022
... chances in the present and conjure what German Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch once called the ‘anticipatory illumination of art’ that is necessary to envisage social life anew. (Kapadia 2019: 165–67) The passage has been corrected in the online versions of the article. https://doi.org/10.1215...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 193–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ). Vocabulary errors, omissions, embellishment, and “infidelity” to Han’s original style became the central focus of the controversy. As a result, the discourse on the English version of The Vegetarian encouraged critics to actively expose mistakes in the translation, leading to an obsession over minor...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... For Muna, recognition of her disidentification from Islam and perverse sexuality, and of her creation of Islamic sexuality and perverse Islam, seems central to her being able to live out these versions of religious and sexual identities. While Muna’s attempts at recognition inevitably fail, she continues...
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