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STARKVILLE, Miss.--A 1991 independent film about three generations of Gullah women on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina will be screened Thursday [March 10] at Mississippi State.
Titled "Daughters of the Dust," the free public showing begins at 5:30 p.m. in McCool Hall's Taylor Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the university's African American Studies program.
Jacqueline Wood will serve as special commentator. She is an associate professor of African American Literature at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Written and directed by Julie Dash and set at the turn of the 20th century, the film features an unusual narrative device--the voice of an unborn child. The production is based on Dash's novel of the same title published in 1999 by Plume Books, a division of Penguin USA.
Selected in 2004 by the Library of Congress for the U.S. National Film Registry, "Daughters" was recognized for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." Critics also praised Dash's rich language and uses of song and imagery.
For more information on the film, visit www.imdb.com/title/tt0104057/
For more on the program, contact Linda Joyce Miller at 662-325-0587 or lmiller@aas.msstate.edu.
Mississippi State University is online at www.msstate.edu.