The video documentary Saracca and Nation, an exploration of the role of memory in the creation of contemporary culture, presents two cultural “performances” in the Caribbean island state of Grenada — 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.
Saracca and Nation
African Memory and Re-creation in Grenada (Film Screening)
February 3, 2009
MITH Conference Room
Speaker Bios
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, “Tout Moun Ka Plewe” (Everybody Bawling). Small Axe. A Journal of Caribbean History and Culture. Indiana University Press, 2007 and “Shadowboxing,” short story in Elizabeth Nunez, ed., Stories from Blue Latitutes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad.” Seattle: Seal Press, 2005