Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism articles from June 2005

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism archives from June 2005

Editor's introduction.
June 22, 2005... All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again. ---Lewis Carroll The cover on this issue of Meridians, Hundred Surprises, by Philemona Williamson (one of my favorite artists), speaks to a theme...

Becoming postcolonial: African women changing the meaning of citizenship.(development of black women)
June 22, 2005... In the early 1980s Zimbabwe was touted as a nation that held the promise of a resolution to the seemingly intractable problems of de-colonization and stability in southern Africa. As is true throughout the southern Africa region specifically,...

Lancaster House Agreement.(Zimbabwe)
June 22, 2005... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_House_Agreement The Lancater House Agrement was the independence agreement for Rhodesia, present-day Zimbabwe. It was signed on December 21, 1979. This agreement effectively ended the white rule in...

Tending to the Roots: Anna Julia Cooper's sociopolitical thought and activism.
June 22, 2005... Black women activists participating in racial uplift projects during the nineteenth century troubled the boundaries of race, space, nation, and time, creating new cognitive mappings of community. They undermined traditional categories,...

Dirt South Moon (1).(Poem)
June 22, 2005... dirt south moon (1) brothers... she is rounder than the moon and far more faithful. --Lucille Clifton the moon is here the moon don't believe the sun arriving for its own sake thrall of nostalgia...

Gender, nation, and globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2005... The crossover success of Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001), whose characters speak English, Hindi, and Punjabi, lies in the skill with which the film acquaints a Western audience with the sights and sounds of the new global India. Set in a...

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's alien: copy with a difference.
June 22, 2005... The kind and degree of contradiction that exists between the historical specificities of immigrant displacement And racialization And canonized forms of national culture generates formal deviations whose significances are misread if simply...

Oklahoma Naming.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Oklahoma Naming I cried a while when I moved here and saw trees so short and few, prairie altogether flat, and the earth near scarlet like my Georgia earth but that was where kinship ended. And then, the land...

African feminist scholars in women's studies: negotiating spaces of dislocation and transformation in the study of women.
June 22, 2005... Introduction The past decade has witnessed the publication of numerous feminist writings on issues of identity and difference in the analysis of women's lives (Anzaldua 1990, 2001; Collins 1990; hooks 2000; Imam 1997; Mama 1996; Mohanty...

From a distance of one hundred and twenty years: theorizing diasporic Chinese female subjectivities in Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness.
June 22, 2005... Diasporic Chinese women's literature presents a recurring struggle to integrate the complexities of national and transnational pasts with contemporary manifestations of racial, gender, and sexual politics and histories. Geling Yan's The Lost...

On Learning That My Indian Student is a Sundancer.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... On Learning That My Indian Student Is a Sundancer chant good pain pegs medicine chant hits fear screechbird chant song root chant fruit billie's tree chant you tell piercing days...

Feminist negotiations: contesting narratives of the campaign against acid violence in Bangladesh.
June 22, 2005... Acid attacks against women have been increasingly reported in Bangladesh since the early 1980s. Acid attacks involve the splashing of acid (car battery or sulfuric acid) on the face and/or body of victims. While initially such cases were...

Hawk Hoof Tea.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Hawk Hoof Tea My mother lost an eye to a butcher knife when she was only five or six. I've told this story before, but as I age, the story becomes a lesson, how, if a family had not been poor and black, a child might...

Nobel Peace Prize Speech: Nobel Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 2004.(Wangari Maathai)
June 22, 2005... Wangari Maathai delivers her Nobel Peace Prize Speech after receiving the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize in the Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Honourable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee ...

Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai on the Environment, the War in Iraq, Debt, and Women's Equality: interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Tuesday, March 8th, 2005.(Interview)
June 22, 2005... Today on this International Women's Day, we spend the hour with Wangari Maathai, the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Her life story is a remarkable one. Wangari Maathai grew up in a rural...

Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations. By Cheryl J. Fish. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. 224 pp. Library binding, $59.95. In Black and White Women's Travel Narratives, Cheryl J. Fish...

Driving Interstate West through Georgia.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Driving Interstate West through Georgia Already I am become an outsider, a visitor seldom and hasty to my community of pecan, cedar, pine, oak. A forgetful witness to the smell of peaches liquoring the air. I see...