Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism articles from March 2005

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism archives from March 2005

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... we prayed for thunder to clear the air--Chrystos, Not Vanishing "A country like this forces you to find your underground spring to survive," wrote the late South African-born writer Bessie Head. The epigrammatic words, quoted on the cover...

Racial etiquette: Nella Larsen's Passing and the Rhinelander case.
March 22, 2005... I In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that outward appearances and surface events only partly confirm. Rather than directly stating their thoughts, characters communicate through an exchange...

Shifting contexts, shaping experiences: child abuse survivor narratives and educating for empire.
March 22, 2005... "I do not know, Zirigu, but it is certainly good that all of my children are boys. It is good I never had a daughter. Because if I had had a daughter, and I knew a big man was doing unholy things with her, then with a matchet in my own hand,...

Transnational feminism as critical practice: a reading of feminist discourses in Pakistan.
March 22, 2005... Introduction This essay is a speculation of some conceptual strategies that could enhance our understanding of feminist politics and rhetorical practices in the nation-state of Pakistan. I hope that this process will also aid efforts to...

Hunger.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Hunger All day I watch the cooking shows, perhaps for the company of the colours. I have slow, apricot memories. I think I seek in them a grandmother and a kitchen heavy with years. I think I watch for...

I used to live.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... I used to live I used to live in a small room with a narrow bed and a television at my feet, a mirror hung on the back of the door. I lived in the order of its smallness. I lie here next to you and...

52nd and Spruce.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... 52nd and Spruce Old man sits on the cement stoop of the Wings and Things storefront while Fred strums the strings of his guitar with the tips of his still nimble fingers at the end of his song...

Serenghetti Crow.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Serenghetti Crow Great Grandma was legendary. Legend was she was one half black, one half Cherokee and full on crazy. At least, that's what daddy said. He said she asked quietly at first, ...

Fried.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Fried Daddy was all things fried fish, chicken, and pork rinds. He was also things I'd never been pickled pig feet, chitlins, and marrow sucked deep from chicken bones. On soft days he was a whole liter of...

A praxis of parataxis: epistemology and dissonance in Lucha Corpi's detective fiction.(Cactus Blood; Brown Angel )
March 22, 2005... Chicana novelist and poet Lucha Corpi has been ignored by much of the academic literary establishment. She is rarely included in courses on literatures of the United States or even in courses on contemporary women writers. Occasionally...

Keeping up appearances, getting fed up: the embodiment of strength among African American women.
March 22, 2005... The body holds meaning. The fact that this thought takes us by surprise itself reflects significantly upon a culture that is seriously divided within itself, splitting itself off from nature, dividing the mind from the body, dividing thought...

Transracial adoption narratives: prospects and perspectives.
March 22, 2005... As reflected in child abandonment, the price of birth planning in China has indeed been high in recent years. --Kay Johnson [T]his is a new ethnic family form... it is a story about the making of individual families through...

Coyotes, comadres, y colegas: theorizing the personal in Ruth Behar's Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story.
March 22, 2005... The bridge I must be Is the bridge of mg own power I must translate My own fears Mediate My own weaknesses I must be the bridge to nowhere But my true self And then I will be useful --Donna...

Butterfly in the Wind.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Butterfly in the Wind. By Lakshmi Persaud. Leeds, England: Peepal Tree Press, 2001. 120 pp. Textbook paperback, $14.95. Lakshmi Persaud's debut novel, Butterfly in the Wind, fills a vacuum in the Caribbean literary tradition, as Persaud...

Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women. By Laura Hyun Yi Kang. Duke: Duke University Press, 2002. x, 354 PP. Softcover, $22.95. Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women astutely unpacks almost thirty years...

Acknowledgements.
March 22, 2005... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Abu Abarry Opal Palmer Adisa Norma Alarcon Susan Andrade Amrita Basu Stephanie Batiste Ann Boutelle Mary Brady Lucy Burns Johnnella Butler Antonia Castaneda Lily Cho ...