Meridians 8:2

Meridians\u27 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 of constraint....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1025/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 11:1

This issue of Meridians is divided into two parts, linked by the politics and pull of memory. The first part includes an essay that revises the Partition literature around the honor suicides of women during the 1947 violence in Punjab; a meditation on Korean cultural memory and its engagement with historical but unforgotten Japanese and U.S. colonial practices; and an analysis of the portrayal of the iconic South African activist, Winnie Mandela, in the U.S. popular press. This section is also graced by three poems: Memory\u27s Muse, by Sonia Adams and So you Die Slowly and For the Lost, by Kimberly Juanita Brown. The second half of the issue is a special section on Haiti, edited by Gina Athena Ulysse, a Haitian American. She has gathered narratives, poetry, and photographs: remnants of the Haitian earthquake of]anuary 2010 that come together to provide a moving testimonial.https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1020/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 5:2

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 of her novel When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), refer to Head\u27s adopted home of Botswana; but as is true with all fine writers, her specificity is a loose-fitting garment, a thing that may be worn across a multitude of boundaries....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1031/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 15:2

Every time I come across a historical record about African-descended women and movement—migration, immigration, or just plain going and gone—I raise my hand in tribute....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1011/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 13:1

Carole Boyce Davies, the eminent scholar of Caribbean and African studies, opens the issue with an analysis regarding a shift in African feminist discourse in her essay, Gender/Class Intersections and African Women\u27s Rights. Like its African American second-wave counterpart, the discourse challenged all forms of economic and social oppression but now emphasizes women\u27s cultural politics over political systems. Davies explores what she calls the critical variable of class evasion....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1016/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 12:2

Like the conference at the University at Albany, SUNY, that spawned it, this special issue of Meridians is an extraordinary event....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1018/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 6:1

The cover on this issue of Meridians, Hundred Surprises, by Philemona Williamson ( one of my favorite artists), speaks to a theme within this issue of the journal. As is true with much ofWilliamson\u27s work, the painting captures a precise moment of recognition in the lives of young girls. The message, on the surface, seems straightforward enough....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1030/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 9:2

Social constructions shaped by art and/or various forms of violence are themes in this issue of Meridians.https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1023/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 10:2

A central task of feminist scholarship is to provide new frameworks-and new applications of existing ones-that correct, explain, and analyze the gendered experiences of women across and within multiple cultural contexts....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1021/thumbnail.jp

Meridians 9:1

One of the most important missions of feminist scholarship is to recognize missing voices, perspectives, and representations. A major theme in this issue of Meridians is the restoration and re-visioning of those hidden, excluded, or marginalized aspects of our interdisciplinary discourses....https://scholarworks.smith.edu/meridians/1024/thumbnail.jp