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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 26–52.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Claire Raymond Abstract This essay considers the ethically complex figure of the feminine witness to suffering by thinking in-depth about photographer and installation artist Carrie Mae Weems's installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (Weems 1995–1996). The essay is concerned...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 114–139.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-telling from all over the world. This transnational network of resistance extends in Cliffs novel from the Caribbean to the Pacific to Sephardic passageways; her character bears witness to events from the Spanish Inquisition to the Civil Rights era in the U.S., a temporal span that Cliff achieves through...
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Published: 01 April 2021
Figure 3. In almost all frames, Haider and Arshia occupy the center of the screen. This suggests their equal importance in bearing witness to the Kashmir conflict.
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and interpretations of the poem at several meetings of Afro-descendant social movements across the Americas, I was also bearing witness to the process by which creative cultural expressions become politicized and popularized by their audiences, especially Afro-descendant women, to reflect a collective desire, goal...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 184–213.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Chamindra Weerawardhana Abstract In the interdisciplinary research area of Transgender studies, Transfeminist theoretical perspectives have witnessed much innovation over the last few years. This has culminated in an increase in the acknowledgement of Transgender people in the West, as well...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 147–148.
Published: 01 March 2013
...DaMaris B. Hill Copyright © 2013 by Smith College 2013 DAMARIS B. HILL Lustsand Gaines Her right hand raised toward Heaven, he asks if she is Mary Hanna Tabbs and makes her promise to tell the whole truth as a court's witness. Her eyes plead mercy from her lap "I can tell you I loved...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 289–297.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... This language calls on "us" to recognize that "they" bleed just like "we" do, that "they" hurt and suffer just like "us." We are complicit in this bloodletting when we support American wars. Witness the power of this embodiment in the shocked and horrified responses to my voice and my words, rather than...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 139–148.
Published: 01 December 2020
... terror is waged. This language calls on “us” to recognize that “they” bleed just like “we” do, that “they” hurt and suffer just like “us.” We are complicit in this bloodletting when we support American wars. Witness the power of this embodiment in the shocked and horrified responses to my voice and my...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
... as a tool through which to bear witness to violence and war. To visualize violence such as that experienced by Albanian Kosovars, news photographs seem to say, is to speak out against it. In American culture, photojournalism maintains the cultural authority to depict war and its consequences through claims...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
Published: 01 October 2024
... that can be retrieved and relived.” Instead, memory making is by and large a narrative act. In Frank’s case, intoxication interferes considerably with the witnessing of La Matanza. He confesses, “I had spent the two days of the brief, bloody civil war sleeping in ravines and on hillsides, limping through...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Figure 3. In almost all frames, Haider and Arshia occupy the center of the screen. This suggests their equal importance in bearing witness to the Kashmir conflict. ...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., up until the point at which suddenly the case changed, from suicide to accident. Somewhere at this point, all the prosecution's witnesses turned hostile, the court decided to dismiss the case, and all possibility of further appeal was dismissed. This, despite two family members who testified...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 290–299.
Published: 01 December 2016
... students' astonishment at the growing number of black and brown folks at the hands of police and vigilantes, but also signifies the act of witnessing and remembering the dead. Students are witnessing black lives snuffed out because they did not matter. Further, the act of mapping is an organic exercise...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 161–168.
Published: 01 September 2014
... all odds, as a disabled enslaved woman, she escaped to freedom-having learned of the Underground Railroad that included support from black and white allies-and, once she made it to the other side, returned to slavery thirteen more times to free countless other slaves. Tubman used wit and trickery...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and spiritually whole. She is a gatherer: of the mother wit of her grandmother in South Carolina; the church women whose pastel suits and kitten heels tell you who they know themselves to be; the mother wit that carries the sounds and values of home no matter where she happens to live. She may be an old soul...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... part of 2003. This humanistic gesture acquires particular resonance for the artist who not only faces the decimation of her people through invasions and sanctions but who has also witnessed the ambivalent consequences of the Suez War in Egypt and the Lebanese CivilWar. She states: "Perhaps I simply...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
Published: 01 October 2019
... questions of regional solidarity; but there was also a feminist discourse and a mobilization on the ground that we believed presented a very valuable contribution to feminist praxis. Lebanon, Summer 2015: the country witnessed a captivating movement against corruption, epitomized by a crisis...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 374–398.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., one that encompasses survival in the wake of sexual harm and challenges the inevitable violent conclusions of the subaltern suicide bomber. The possibility of undoing the subject/nonsubject dichotomy presented by this scene resembles the concept of empathetic witnessing outlined by Brison ( 2002...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 146–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... it to the category of genre . Though the early part of the century witnessed a preference for historical paintings—those depicting scenes from mythology, scripture, and literature—genre paintings catered to the “newly enriched bourgeoisie with an insatiable appetite for the pleasures and astonishments of ‘real life...
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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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