HOME ABOUT US MISSION HISTORY SUBSCRIPTION & BUSINESS EDITOR & BOARDS VOLUMES SUBMISSIONS LINKS & RESOURCES EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2 VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1 VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1 View Abstracts for this issue Autumn 2003 Cover: Mama Lacha Miguel Zafra V Wage Peace: Editor's Introduction Myriam Chancy CRITICAL ESSAYS:   1 Geographies of Space: Spatial Impositions, Circularity and Memory in Malika Mokeddem's Les Hommes qui marchent and Le Siecle des sauterelles [abstract] Brenda J. Mehta 173 A Global Feminist Travels: Assia Djebar and Fantasia [abstract] Jennifer B. Steadman 205 Writing the Nation of the Beauty Queen's Body: Implications for a 'Hindu' Nation [abstract] Huma Ahmed-Ghosh COUNTERPOINTS   55 Migrations: A Meridians Interview with Elif Shafak   132 A Meridians Report on MADRE: The War on Iraq   CULTUREWORKS   39 Memoir: "Chez les arabes" Joyce Zonana 86 Fiction: An Assyro-Babylonian Pregnant Goddess (an Excerpt from a novel, The Saint of Incipiant Insanities) [abstract] Elif Shafak 100 Poetry: "dream of the soft-shell crab," hazel at the ailey matinee," "third and main," "kneading: zhang yu," and "fly girl/letter to Bessie coleman" Tracie D. Hall 130 Poetry: "Change Places" Arlene Zide 165 Poetry: "Necessities," Imagine Yourself Happy," and "Punya for the Angel Gabriel" Katherine Sugg 200 Poetry: "Vintage," "Belated Libation," "Where I Write," and "Arrival" Nelly Rosario 228 Art Work: "Escrava Anastacia" Clancy Cavner 229 Fiction: Escrava Anastácia Speaks Jené Watson-Aifah IN THE TRENCHES   142 Departured from Karachi Airport: Some Reflections on Feminist Outrage Ambreen Hai FROM THE ARCHIVES   28 Diving Into Audre Lorde's "Blackstudies" [abstract] Angela Bowen To purchase this issue contact Indiana University Press at www.iupjournals.org/meridians