Afrofuturism. In music: hip-hop as in Deltron 3030. Calypso: for example, Sugar Aloes, "Signs of the End Times."
Hopkinson's own page (some broken links). Her essay "Code Sliding" about writing Midnight Robber.
A useful interview with Hopkinson. An even more useful interview. A terrific and more recent interview.
The Caribbean background. For example, Trinidad, and Jamaica.
One of many available images of Toussaint L'Ouverture.
THIS IS A COMIC WINGS: A COMIC
The most frequently circulated image of Granny Nanny of the Maroons.
Another source for her Web.
A solicitation for Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line.
A still from a production of Aime Cesaire's A Tempest, at Lafayette College.
Some English guy whom Hopkinson rewrites.
Cross-section of an Atlantic slave ship: the Middle Passage.
A monster puppet from Carnival in Toronto, where Hopkinson now lives.
A Midnight Robber from Carnival.
A famous former (or current?) Jamaican Maroon settlement.
The sugar cane slave economy.
A good father: the nonhuman daddy tree.
A decidedly non-scholarly, but edifying, guide to Trinidad and Tobago folklore.
Indigenous Caribbean peoples.
Not the same thing on which other comedies end.
Split paths.
A good choice for a given name.
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