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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
... at summer's height. She murmurs my name asks in Malayalam Whyis li.ghtsohot? Beyond her spine I catch a candle glisten. The door's a frame for something I'm too scared to name: a child, against a white wall, hands jammed to her teeth, lips torn, breath staggering its hoarse silence. All night my voice laced...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
...]), my proposed comparison elucidates the Western and transnational leanings of this foundational “Caribbean” work and the ways in which it implicitly expands on Morrison's representations of female autonomy and visual culture. To that end, I borrow from and expand on Cheryl Wall's notion of “worrying...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., amplified by activists on the outside and international human rights organizations documenting prison conditions, highlight rampant violations of human rights behind walls. The gendered nature of racism, which fuels the growth of the prison industrial complex, results in experiences of violence, including...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 440–445.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Michaela Django Walsh Abstract This piece, written in the form of a letter to my son, explains the meaning of his name. In Spanish the word lienzo is a type of drystone wall. Spanning rural areas of Mexico, the lienzo has—for centuries—been a way to gently delineate space. I frame the composition...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Ayasha Guerin Abstract This three-part essay first introduces Berlin’s anticolonial, Black feminist poetics through the work of May Ayim and Audre Lorde, whose poems “Blues in Black-and-White” and “East Berlin 1989” were written shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in response to racial...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Cheryl A. Wall Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY Histories and Heresies Engendering the Harlem Renaissance CHERYL A. WALL History 1)a writtennarrativeconstitutinga continuousmethodicarlecord,in orderoftime,ofimportantorpubliceventse, speciallythoseconnected...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 123–125.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Sapphire Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 SAPPHIRE Don'tHanBUp I'm listening to the Orlons "Don't Hang Up" fierce rhythmic growl from ghetto girls in sequins. Crystals, galaxies oflight, & on the wall behind the wheelchair are five clocks. Fierce ghetto vinyl groove. I'm sitting...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 168–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... to experiment with these forms, but I did not understand the artistic significance of that legacy. I was attracted to symmetry and space, and I liked the sehens.When one enters a mosque there is a large, empty square, and the only reference for its size is the wall. That is my greatest experience of space...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 179–186.
Published: 01 September 2000
...,The Waves I was twelve or thirteen when I first read TheWavesI.was in my grandmother Mariamma's bedroom in Kozencheri, a small town in Kerala, South India. The walls were whitewashed, with a bluish tinge to their color. There were photographs of family all over the upper edge of the wall- broad foreheads...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
... rich by buying up assets when sellers are facing near-ruin—arrived. They were often closely related to the same Wall Street players who had made fat fees selling the bad bonds to begin with (Zamansky 2014 ). They loaned Puerto Rico millions to help it avoid being downgraded (Walsh 2013 ; Corkery...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 26–27.
Published: 01 March 2001
... structures and are silent, thought of home, calculations temporally unconnected. Youwant the light to pass through objects and furniture, wire chairs, glass tables, gauze, and remove nonbearing walls. 2. Each arriving inhabitant negates a portion of net, to understand why his or her glance stops on you, net...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 475–477.
Published: 01 October 2023
... walls. You hear your name. Feel fingers smoothing Against your brow. Gray sky, quaking earth, persistent palm trees Begin preparing for your return. From your bed, your frail voice calls out to Your Amados, your beloveds. Amado Sr., Your beloved husband, sits by you. He takes remnants...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 69–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., her face turned to the wall, 70 KAREN AN-HWEI LEE silent mirror seeking no image of herself, mother who gave birth in the morning breathing now before the journey home in a lightless room, no window, was this a finishing house for girls, coat room for punishment after school, girls who talk back, wear...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . 1947 . The Walls Came Tumbling Down . New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co . Phillpott Thomas Lee . 1978 . The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle Class Reform, Chicago, 1880–1930 . New York : Oxford University Press . Reed Christopher Robert . 1997...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to experience playfully “her various identities in the paradoxical South Asian space,” and in so doing, they transform the wall from a quintessential aspect of a “carceral landscape” to a surmountable—perhaps even a border crossing—vantage point that embraces the “mosaic of colors” that comprise the wall (Mehta...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of what became known as the Negro Fellowsip League. The riot in the Illinois capital also had alerted a group of white liberals, many of them socialists, whose ties to traditions of progressive reform had earned them the moniker of neo-abolitionist. Among them was William English Walling, born...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 300–305.
Published: 01 December 2016
... with a secret saw baked in the one where i kick the guards in the face and you run to freedom the one where we sing your name so loud that the walls fall down the one where you find a portal in there and walk through it to chill with Assata in Cuba and walk back out go days later with a tan the one that makes...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 229–245.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in there? My socked feet scooted to the back wall of the dressing room. Flat and rough as the sander in our mother’s toolbox, my sister’s voice contained an authoritarian edge that convinced my friends she hated them. Upsetting Geneva was risky, not because she would hurt you physically, but her disgust...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 248.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Upasana Agarwal Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 My work often explores queer identity via repetition in patterns. In this work I look at Shazia, my friend, who finds intimacy and peace with herself on a hot summer’s day. She almost crosses the wall but pauses for a moment to ponder...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 140.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Daníel R. Martínez Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 DANIEL R. MARTiNEZ Forgivenefsrsom Malintzin She stood in shadows whispering for me to help write her back into reality against a wall of history; scribbles and graffiti on the hard outer flesh, a messenger of fear, hate...
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