...Reetika Vazirani Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 HER FINAL WORD TO VISHNU ReetikaVazirani now that I've praised you temple's afternoons my hunger's a throat called the Fever sunk in your name Tirumal Dark One ifI sleep you will phone me I'll miss it that's the way it seems...

... research project to study Black women's literary production from Costa.Rica on a Fulbright grant. I first read Naciendo(1988) and later came across her second collection of poetry, Rotundamentneegra(1994). I was awed by the power of her words and how they touched me personally, appealing to a deep level...

... statement, her Piedadeis the tangible manifestation of "hope [for] a future rooted in strength and remembering." At the heart of this issue is the intent to remember those who have cleared the paths on which we walk presently, as scholars, as poets, as artists (artists in all senses of the word, as it takes...

... in various genres that they thought best captured their voices, their feelings. Thus, the words recounted here are in the form of personal essays, poems, photographs, and even a piece of fiction. Given Haiti's place in the global racial imaginary, and since we are all only too aware of its historical...

... the narrative management of women’s bodies and the form of the novel itself. The invitation to mourn extends beyond the book’s characters and to the reader. A Mercy disturbs the potentially stabilizing authority of the written word, expanding the practice of literary mourning from the world of the book...

...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...

... internal meetings as a diverse, multigenerational group open to learning from others. Second, a feminist approach requires that the authors center mothers’ words through the critical practice of ensuring shared Arabic language and local knowledge in the research process. The authors offer excerpts...

... to theorize how and why her mother’s life trajectory was shaped by her strife to have a dignified death, in other words, to be able to die in Palestine. To illuminate the significance of her mother’s approach to death and its relationship to being Palestinian, being refugee, and living under colonial war...

... highlighted the history of U.S. foreign policy and sought to mobilize feminist opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan. The war, she argued, was reviving the colonial/imperial global divide and would be catastrophic. The author explores here how a number of carefully considered words used in the speech were...

...-identified people through a biopolitical framing of population, where apprehend is understood in both senses of the word—in terms of understanding Muslims as well as criminalizing them. What can memes and their circulation tell us about how notions of contagion shape the context of surveilling Muslims...

... of nationalism and feminism, and explores how Palestinian-American literature, emerging from personal and political displacement, narrates a literary claim to both reclamation and transformation, in which to return is to claim what was lost and to construct Palestinian reality anew. Drawing on the words...

... the diverse faces of its inhabitants. Through such images and documents, universities are constituted as if they have these qualities. One of the most obvious features of this descriptive purchase in the context of the RRAA is the use of the word “diversity.” Diversity enters such documents not only...

..., and in being "given" a name, the institution is also "given" attributes, qualities, and even a character. By"speech acts" I include not just spoken words but writing and visual images-all the materials that give an institution interiority, as ifit has a face, as well as feelings, thoughts, or judgments...

... eventuallyenvelopethis entire planet in a nuclear holocaust. The lawsintroduced bythe GenevaConventionshavenot been repealed, but words on paper cannot protect humans from those who would abase them and denythe existenceof their humanity.Whilemanybranches of sciencehavesought to understand-and to evencure-human bigotry...

...: Jimmy's Hog Heaven, Dent's Undertaking Establishment, The Silver Moon INQUISITOR AND INSURGENT 215 Cafe, Johnson's Nursery, Miss Mable's Frozen Pies and Custards. Pencils got me going about words and the work worlds of human beings. Pencils in my girlhood were tiny handheld billboards; they were jumbo...

..., in all Creation. Otherwise the knife of truth becomes the instrument not of surgery but of murder, of soul-killing, division, and oppression. Healers and killers cannot abide together. The Word (Nommo) is the beginning of power healing power, killing power, resuscitating power, suffocating power. We must...

... the potential to provide a voice for women leaders while at the same time disempowering them as mere stand-ins for male authority figures. Part II How do you put such a thing into words? When the ground doesn't hold. When the back of an invisible hand, unimpeded, sweeps the landscape and VI MERIDIANS 10:2 all...

... devotion to justice, equality and radical democracy seemed to revolve around the pleasure she felt in hurling beautiful words at a world full of racism, poverty, homophobia and inane politicians determined to preserve this awful state of affairs. There was always joy in her rage. Politics was her life...

... . Dimapur, Nagaland : Heritage . Changkija Monalisa . 2013b . Weapons of Words on Pages of Pain . Dimapur, Nagaland : Heritage . Chhangte Cherrie . 2011 . “ Loneliness in the Midst of Curfews: The Mizo Insurgency Movements and Terror Lore .” In The Oxford Anthology of Writings from...

... a dream of fused words, absent information recovered, codified, you know she thirsts, imagining a glass of water, an image understood by looking at the space in her hand cradled for a glass, desire understood in the absence of conventional expression, she thirsts, yes, in the absence of words. 2. Ofwords...