Merle Collins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3596484 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Merle Collins |
| PRENOMES | Merle |
| SOBRENOME | Collins |
| ASSINATURA | COLLINS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Maryland |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
In This Great Future
In this century, floods, hurricanes, and natural disasters seem to have increased exponentially in the Caribbean and elsewhere. But have they really? Might it be that as the world engages with what is referred to as development, there is no concomitant focus on the lessons of history and the infrastructural needs to deal with the negative effects of this development? This paper considers aspects of the Caribbean experience, particularly from the …
The Haunt of History - Grenada's Story
This paper is an adaptation of the text of my keynote address at the 2019 University of the West Indies conference held to commemorate and interrogate what came to be known as the Grenada Revolution, demarcating a political period between 1979 and 1983. A leftist political group, the New Jewel Movement (NJM), seized political office, arguing that the government of Prime Minister Eric Gairy was oppressive and ineffective. The paper posits that, at…
The Future of Merle
Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X
(2020). Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 346-369
Frontiers of the Caribbean, by Philip Nanton
Of Libraries, Anniversaries and Archives
TOWARDS THE END OF 2011, HEARD THAT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY facility in St George's, Grenada, was closed, and had been closed for four months. This meant that there were no public library and archive facilities in the capital. The facilities at Grenville, the second largest town on the island and the capital of the largest parish, St Andrew's, were also closed. was told that the library there had been destroyed in a fire some time before. The library …
Caribbean Spaces
A Caribbean Story
The fallowing lecture was delivered by Merle Collins at the 38th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Grand Anse, Grenada, on 4 June 2013
Are You a Bolshevik or a Menshevik
The period that has come to be known as the Grenada Revolution began on 13 March 1979, the day the New Jewel Movement (NJM) took control of the Grenada government, and came to an end on 25 October
Poems
Tout Moun ka Pl w (Everybody Bawling)
Tout Moun ka Pléwé (Everybody Bawling)
The headlines for our stories down here in the Caribbean always come in graphic type, written by the wind, and sung by the sea, with that murmuring in the water over Kick-Em-Ginny reminding us that Not all skin teeth is good grin
Callaloo
Callaloo Merle Collins (bio) Mix up like callaloo Not no watery callaloo But a thick, hot, sweet callaloo burnin' you tongue Wid dem chunk o' dumplin' goin' down nice an' wid coconut wid o' widdout deaders as de case may be as de taste may be as de pocket may be but sweet an' hot Dat is what it feels like to be part o' dis Revolution reality O' dis wakin' up reality o' dis no more hidin' you passport reality no more hangin' you head an' shufflin'…
Grenada—Ten Years and More
The Signs
To be Free is Very Sweet’
Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834. MOIRA FERGUSON. New York & London: Routledge, 1992. xiii, 465pp. £12.99. ISBN O‐415–90476–5. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. MOIRA FERGUSON. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ix, 214pp. £38.00. ISBN O‐8032–1984–9
Up and Down the Deck
Poems
The writer in residence
Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X
(2020). Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 346-369
A Caribbean Story
The fallowing lecture was delivered by Merle Collins at the 38th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Grand Anse, Grenada, on 4 June 2013
Tout Moun ka Pléwé (Everybody Bawling)
The headlines for our stories down here in the Caribbean always come in graphic type, written by the wind, and sung by the sea, with that murmuring in the water over Kick-Em-Ginny reminding us that Not all skin teeth is good grin
The Haunt of History - Grenada's Story
This paper is an adaptation of the text of my keynote address at the 2019 University of the West Indies conference held to commemorate and interrogate what came to be known as the Grenada Revolution, demarcating a political period between 1979 and 1983. A leftist political group, the New Jewel Movement (NJM), seized political office, arguing that the government of Prime Minister Eric Gairy was oppressive and ineffective. The paper posits that, at…
Of Libraries, Anniversaries and Archives
TOWARDS THE END OF 2011, HEARD THAT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY facility in St George's, Grenada, was closed, and had been closed for four months. This meant that there were no public library and archive facilities in the capital. The facilities at Grenville, the second largest town on the island and the capital of the largest parish, St Andrew's, were also closed. was told that the library there had been destroyed in a fire some time before. The library …
Grenada—Ten Years and More
The writer in residence
Poems
To be Free is Very Sweet’
Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834. MOIRA FERGUSON. New York & London: Routledge, 1992. xiii, 465pp. £12.99. ISBN O‐415–90476–5. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. MOIRA FERGUSON. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ix, 214pp. £38.00. ISBN O‐8032–1984–9
Up and Down the Deck
Grenada—Ten Years and More
The Signs
Tout Moun ka Pl w (Everybody Bawling)
Tout Moun ka Pléwé (Everybody Bawling)
The headlines for our stories down here in the Caribbean always come in graphic type, written by the wind, and sung by the sea, with that murmuring in the water over Kick-Em-Ginny reminding us that Not all skin teeth is good grin
Callaloo
Callaloo Merle Collins (bio) Mix up like callaloo Not no watery callaloo But a thick, hot, sweet callaloo burnin' you tongue Wid dem chunk o' dumplin' goin' down nice an' wid coconut wid o' widdout deaders as de case may be as de taste may be as de pocket may be but sweet an' hot Dat is what it feels like to be part o' dis Revolution reality O' dis wakin' up reality o' dis no more hidin' you passport reality no more hangin' you head an' shufflin'…
Poems
Are You a Bolshevik or a Menshevik
The period that has come to be known as the Grenada Revolution began on 13 March 1979, the day the New Jewel Movement (NJM) took control of the Grenada government, and came to an end on 25 October
A Caribbean Story
The fallowing lecture was delivered by Merle Collins at the 38th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Grand Anse, Grenada, on 4 June 2013
Of Libraries, Anniversaries and Archives
TOWARDS THE END OF 2011, HEARD THAT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY facility in St George's, Grenada, was closed, and had been closed for four months. This meant that there were no public library and archive facilities in the capital. The facilities at Grenville, the second largest town on the island and the capital of the largest parish, St Andrew's, were also closed. was told that the library there had been destroyed in a fire some time before. The library …
Caribbean Spaces
Frontiers of the Caribbean, by Philip Nanton
Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X
(2020). Louise Langdon Norton Little, Mother of Malcolm X. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 346-369
The Future of Merle
In This Great Future
In this century, floods, hurricanes, and natural disasters seem to have increased exponentially in the Caribbean and elsewhere. But have they really? Might it be that as the world engages with what is referred to as development, there is no concomitant focus on the lessons of history and the infrastructural needs to deal with the negative effects of this development? This paper considers aspects of the Caribbean experience, particularly from the …
The Haunt of History - Grenada's Story
This paper is an adaptation of the text of my keynote address at the 2019 University of the West Indies conference held to commemorate and interrogate what came to be known as the Grenada Revolution, demarcating a political period between 1979 and 1983. A leftist political group, the New Jewel Movement (NJM), seized political office, arguing that the government of Prime Minister Eric Gairy was oppressive and ineffective. The paper posits that, at…
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