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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
... on folklore to contextualize her image-based archive on Haiti, the Belgian Congo, and Nigeria, the author proposes that Comhaire-Sylvain’s visual catalog is rendered legible through her undeveloped images taken in Africa. Tracing Comhaire-Sylvain’s contortions in front of and behind the camera, the author...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in fighting white supremacy,” Sathi acknowledges that she is “uncomfortably placed in the process.” Similarly, Grace L. Sanders Johnson’s Media Matters piece, “Picturing Herself in Africa: Haiti, Diaspora, and the Visual Folkloric,” offers an empathetic yet critical analysis of Haitian feminist...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
... between the 1920s and the 1950s. Cosme-like contemporary afrocubanismowriters-depicted Afro-Cuban folklore and black working-class culture, as well as the devastation created by racial discrimination (Moore 1997). In short, Cosme brought their poetry to life. Adorned in elaborate costumes, she recited...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 September 2006
... cultural meaning as the Luis A. Ferrer Center of the Fine Arts. 8 Within Puerto Rican national discourses and narratives, the otheris historically presented as essentialist in terms of race, class, culture, and language. Despite the factthatwe live in a global and highly visual society where images travel...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
... is a point of departure and return but can have no movement of its own volition. In this essay I argue that colonial narratives of the doudou’s abjection are imbedded with their own countercritique because of their incorporation of subversive female characters from Martinican folklore. Two...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... lyrical commitment to discussing issues of anti-Black and anti-Haitian prejudice in the Dominican Republic, as well as her Black and Brown visual archive in music videos, as a willingness to place her physical body in a space the national body deems “other.” 8 In “La hora de volvé,” which we...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the creature’s immediate regional and national origins. As is the case with the archetype of La Llorona , the monstrous mother present in Chicana and broader Latina literary, cultural, and visual arts, lateral connections are certainly possible between women’s lived experiences and these versatile narrative...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... have countered some of Fortuna’s earlier marginalization. New desires to either celebrate or merely consume Afro-Dominican culture provoke an increased interest in her oeuvre. Her music and its visual translations celebrate the diversity of Dominican life, particularly that of black and working-class...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 235–258.
Published: 01 April 2024
... within today’s political framework. The art historian Ngaire Gardner, the great-great-granddaughter of Walter Stanhope Sherwill, got in touch with us about unpublished material she inherited, which also included notes and illustrations of the Santal Rebellion ( Hul ) in 1855. There is no visual art...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 414–444.
Published: 01 October 2019
... is complex. She appropriates the lyrics but invents; she repeats but with difference; and she visualizes inferred alliances between women across geographic, racial, and temporal boundaries through her transnational reference to Billie Holiday, the poplar trees, and the deep historical violence that emanates...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
... where shamanic rituals are recognized as “folkloric theatrical performances” and “some shamans have been designated as living national treasures” (Lee 2009 : 192). 9 Korean cultural anthropologists and feminist historians concur that shamanism in modern Korea is best understood by locating...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 207–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Stallings L. H. 2007 . Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Tierney Kathleen . 2015 . “ Resilience and the Neoliberal Project: Discourses, Critiques, Practices—and Katrina...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 58–81.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., slapstick comedy, and gangster genres of the classic Hollywood era, by infusing them with Hindu epic plots, Orientalist exoticism, and the visual and aural overload oflndian culture to create a new aesthetic style. Once derided for its melodrama and derivative plots, Bollywood has more recently begun...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the narrative, as the short story recounts Da-duh's resemblance to West African masks. Both characters mobilize striking visual images in their competition to defend their preferred locale, and implicitly engage and counter overt stereotypes often attributed to women in the Caribbean. The grandmother introduces...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
... this framework to capture various literary, visual, musical, cinematic, performative, theatrical, and other modes of expressive cultures aligned with social justice movements that at once critique differential distributions of power, resources, and life chances in the present and conjure what German Marxist...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... references other stories and rhymes, including “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Peter Pan,” “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” Alice in Wonderland , Through the Looking Glass , and The Little House , just as it invokes Mexican (American) folklore and Greek and Roman mythology. Cisneros’s mimetic repetition...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 134–160.
Published: 01 September 2002
... pseudo-folkloric analyses of henna. 8 Roome suggests that the "oddly elusive" nature of henna, which of course is the case only outside the countries where it is routinely practiced, is due to its association with "women, eroticism, mysticism, privacy, religion, sacred ritual and ceremony, matrimonial...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 174–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., literature and folklore have engrained into Thai culture through public education the treatment of women as property, tributary gifts, slaves, or beings whose purpose is to fulfill male sexual desires (Beutisnit 1974). Therefore, in addition to challenging the return of the military regime like their male...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 11–48.
Published: 01 April 2022
... about Vodou. I was reading Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen ( 1953 ). She captured a lot in her writing, and she left behind these extraordinary images in her videography. Some of the visual material she’s left us with is so powerful, so respectful. I was also reading Zora Neale Hurston’s texts. But when...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 215–236.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of the individual customers who come to her grocery store. These rites are not based upon a universal (i.e., Indian) tradition or folklore; rather they emanate from Tilo's imagination. She does not use fantasy, dream, or myths to generate action, and while she may be ironizing history, she does not attempt to alter...
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