[Mitworld] New: Jamaica Kincaid, MIT 5: Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 44 | July 18, 2007
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[A READING BY JAMAICA KINCAID]

SPEAKER:
Jamaica Kincaid
Writer
Visiting Professor, Harvard University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/460/>

[QUOTE]
"I rule out the memoir. It caramelizes. The minute you start thinking of
things as memoir, it caramelizes and beautifies things."
--Jamaica Kincaid


EVENT HOST: Literature Section <http://lit.mit.edu/index.php>

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[FOLK CULTURES AND DIGITAL CULTURES]

MODERATOR:
David Thorburn
MIT Professor of Literature
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Director, MIT Communications Forum

PANELISTS:
Thomas Pettitt
Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Denmark

Lewis Hyde
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College
Fellow, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School,
Harvard University

S. Craig Watkins
Associate Professor, Department of Radio, Television and Film,
University of Texas, Austin


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/462/>

[QUOTE]
"Central figures in the high culture museum, the most revered and
central figures in fact, folks like Shakespeare and Homer, actually in
their own time belonged to what we must call something like the popular
culture."
--David Thorburn


EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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