Nalo Hopkinson

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.