{"id":318,"date":"2009-01-29T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=318"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:06:29","slug":"23-mith-digital-dialogue-merle-collins-saracca-and-nation-african-memory-and-re-creation-in-grenada-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/23-mith-digital-dialogue-merle-collins-saracca-and-nation-african-memory-and-re-creation-in-grenada-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/3 MITH Digital Dialogue: Merle Collins, &#8220;Saracca and Nation: African Memory and Re-creation in Grenada&#8221; (film screening)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MITH Digital Dialogue<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, February 3, 12:30-1:45<\/p>\n<p>MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saracca and Nation: African Memory and Re-creation in Grenada&#8221; (film screening)<\/p>\n<p>by MERLE COLLINS<\/p>\n<p>The video documentary Saracca and Nation, an exploration of the role of memory in the creation of contemporary culture, presents two cultural &#8220;performances&#8221; in the Caribbean island state of Grenada &#8212; the River Sallee saracca and the Carriacou Big Drum Nation Dance.  It considers how these cultural performances owe their existence to African memory and re-creation.<\/p>\n<p>MERLE COLLINS, MITH Fellow, is a professor in the English Department, teaching Caribbean Literature.  The video documentary, Saracca and Nation: African Memory and Re-Creation in Grenada, is her most recent work, produced with a MITH Fellowship.  A writer of poetry and fiction, her recent publications include creative non-fiction, &#8220;Tout Moun Ka Plewe&#8221; (Everybody Bawling).  Small Axe.  A Journal of Caribbean History and Culture.  Indiana University Press, 2007 and  &#8220;Shadowboxing,&#8221; short story in Elizabeth Nunez, ed., Stories from Blue Latitutes:   Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad.&#8221; Seattle:  Seal Press, 2005<\/p>\n<p>Coming up @MITH 2\/10:  Jeremy Boggs (George Mason University), &#8220;Managing Projects in the Digital Humanities&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>View MITH&#8217;s complete Digital Dialogues schedule here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100615144914\/http:\/\/www.mith2.umd.edu\/programs\/mith_speakers_spring_2009.pdf<\/p>\n<p>All talks free and open to the public!<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, &#109;i&#x74;h&#x40;u&#x6d;d&#x2e;e&#x64;u, 5-8927).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MITH Digital Dialogue Tuesday, February 3, 12:30-1:45 MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 &#8220;Saracca and Nation: African Memory and Re-creation in Grenada&#8221; (film screening) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[108],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2\/3 MITH Digital Dialogue: Merle Collins, &quot;Saracca and Nation: African Memory and Re-creation in Grenada&quot; 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