i is a long memoried woman
Film Notes: Table of Contents
1990; Dir. Frances Anne Soloman.   Prod. Ingrid Lewis.
Yod Video, released 1991, by Women Make Movies, distributor.

"From dih pout
of mih mouth,
from dih
treacherous
calm of mih
smile,
you can tell
I is a long memoried woman"
[Epigraph, p. 4]

1.  The Beginning (Part One)
[The Middle Passage & "Days that Fell" ]
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/woman1.htm

2.  The Vicissitudes (Part Two)
[Slavery in New World "Killing Fields" of Sugar Cane ]
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3.  The Sorcery (Part Three)
[The Obeah Woman Works Magic]
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4.  The Bloodling (Part Four)
[Sweet tainted perfect child, swim . . . ]
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5.  The Return (Part Five)
[Rebellion, Return & Closing]
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"I have crossed an ocean
I have lost my tongue
from the root of the old
one
a new one has sprung"
"Epilogue" (p. 80)

From i is a long memoried woman, by Grace Nichols
London: Caribbean Cultural International Karnak House, 1983
(unfortunately now out of print!)
as adapted in Frances-Anne Solomon's film version
of I is a long memoried woman (1990).

I Is a Long Memoried Woman ~ Introduction
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/womanintro.htm

More on The African Diaspora:

HUM 211 African Timelines Part III:
African Slave Trade & European Imperialism (CE/AD 15th - early 19th centuries):
 URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm

Hum 211 Course Pack Table of Contents
for more course web resources on 
The African Diaspora: Backgrounds;
Olaudah Equiano; Amistad: The True Story;
I Is a Long Memoried Woman (Introduction & Film Notes);
Religions of the New World African Diaspora; African Griots, & more:
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/index.htm

Hum 211 Links: Diaspora
for more WWW African-Caribbean web resources:
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/linksdiaspora.htm

 HUM 211 Open Campus Course Information - Winter 2002
HUM 211 Home Page Syllabus Course Plan Assignments Course Pack TV Meetings
African Storytelling Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
African Links African Timelines: History, Orature, Literature, & Film
African "Literary" Map African Films African Contexts: Film Afrique, Je Te Plumerai 
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