Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism articles from September 2008

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism archives from September 2008

Manolos, marriage, and Mantras: chick-lit criticism and transnational feminism.(Movie review)(Company overview)
September 22, 2008... Abstract Critical readings of "chick lit" are typically limited to a framework that understands the popular fiction genre as a sign or symptom of "postfeminism" in the U.S. In its readings of chick lit in general, and of South Asian...

Salvation is the issue.(deaths of black women intellectuals)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... When we read the work of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, or Zora Neale Hurston, we hold in our hands more than a book, but a dream of community: living evidence of a spiraling chain of black women intellectuals whose work has been the saving of...

Don't hang up.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Don't Hang Up I'm listening to the Orlons "Don't Hang Up" fierce rhythmic growl from ghetto girls in sequins. Crystals, galaxies of light, & on the wall behind the wheelchair are five clocks. Fierce ghetto vinyl...

Now.(Poem)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... Now Our parents failed us then we failed ourselves then--why am I saying this what am I saying? You are dead. Too soon. What do I have Now What was anything at all ever?

Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project: interview with Frances Beal.(Interview)
September 22, 2008... Abstract In this oral history, Frances M. Beal describes her unique childhood as the daughter of parents of refugee Jewish, African American, and Native American descent. The interview focuses on her activism in the United States and in...

Double jeopardy: to be black and female.(Reprint)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... In attempting to analyze the situation of the black woman in America, one crashes abruptly into a solid wall of grave misconceptions, outright distortions of fact and defensive attitudes on the part of many. The System of capitalism (and its...

Between Us: A Bio-Poem.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Between Us: A Bio-Poem I. I got two braids, a dozen neon bangles, and a pair of plastic pink jellies jumping across the hot concrete cracks behind Dee-Dee doing damage to old Cadillac passers-by appraising...

Re-visioning memoirs old and new: a conversation with Meena Alexander.(Interview)
September 22, 2008... Meena Alexander is a poet, novelist, scholar, and memoirist whose writing has been published in translation in numerous languages. Born in Allahabad, India in 1951, she spent her childhood traveling between India and Sudan and, at age...

Elegy for My Father.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Elegy for My Father Father, when you died, your bones were brittle, fit to burn. They stretched you on a teakwood bench. Light etched your cheekbones, stoked your eyes, your thumbs were pale as love-apple fruit....

Rites of sense.(Poem)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... Rites of Sense In twilight as she lies on a mat I rub my mother's feet with jasmine oil touch calluses under skin, joints upholding that fraught original thing-- bone, gristle, skin, all that makes her mine. All...

Black River, Walled Garden.(Poem)
September 22, 2008... Black River, Walled Garden I The garden of my childhood flees from me: scent of cloves at the point of decay, citadel of orchids swollen with rain, runnels of black earth where rosebushes sprang clotted...

Pitfire.(Poem)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... Pitfire In altered light I hear a bird cry. By the pit, tor of metal, strut of death. Bird song yet. Liturgie de cristal. Flesh in fiery pieces, mute sediments of love. Shall a soul visit her mutilated parts?...

Fire's queer anti-communalism.(motion picture)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Abstract While many critics have pointed out how Fire's (1996) reception reveals much about the Hindutva agenda of fundamentalists and their use of women as symbols for the nation, no one has traced the critique of fundamentalism...

Benediction.(Poem)(Brief article)
September 22, 2008... Benediction We took back roads cutting cross country traveling from one small road to another snaking from Moonville to Mauldin. my big brother Willie and I rode while the blue Duster began stuttering a dubious...

"The future of our worlds": black feminism and the politics of knowledge in the university under globalization.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Abstract Taking as its point of departure an essay published in 1994 by renowned Black feminist Barbara Christian, this paper examines the U.S. university as a crucial site for contemporary transnational capital's management of race. The...

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2008... Meridians' flag is planted squarely on that piece of discursive ground where both race and gender reside. As feminist scholars/activists know, that space, with its fluid borders, can be one of liberation or possess the doubly weighted discord...