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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
| Author: | Nalo Hopkinson |
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Invisible Cities Press, 2000 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
The lushness of language and the landscape, wild contrasts, and pure storytelling magic abound in this anthology of Caribbean writing. Steeped in the tradition of fabulism, where the irrational and inexplicable coexist with the realities of daily life, the stories in this collection are infused with a vitality and freshness that most writing traditions have long ago lost. From spectral slaving ships to women who shed their skin at night to become owls, stories from writers such as Jamaica Kincaid, Marcia Douglas, Ian MacDonald, and Kamau Brathwaite pulse with rhythms, visions, and the tortured history of this spiritually rich region of the world.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Nalo Hopkinson
- What the Periwinkle Remember (excerpt from Madam Fate) - (1999) - shortfiction by Marcia Douglas
- Yurokon - (1970) - shortstory by Wilson Harris
- Spurn Babylon - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
- Just a Lark (or the Crypt of Matthew Ashdown) - novelette by Roger McTair
- Tears for Érsulie Frèda: Men without Shadow - shortstory by Claude-Michel Prévost
- The Village Cock - (1996) - shortstory by H. Nigel Thomas
- Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar - (1999) - shortstory by Ismith Khan
- My Mother - (1983) - shortstory by Jamaica Kincaid
- Mad Fish - (1999) - shortstory by Olive Senior
- Widows' Walk - (1986) - novelette by Opal Palmer Adisa
- Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia - novelette by Pamela Mordecai
- In the Beginning - shortstory by Lillian Allen
- Uncle Obadiah and the Alien - (1996) - shortstory by Geoffrey Philp
- My Grandmother's Tale of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her Venus-Flytraps - (2000) - novelette by Robert Antoni
- Pot O' Rice Horowitz's House of Solace - (1991) - shortstory by Ian McDonald (b. 1933)
- The Glass Bottle Trick - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
- Buried Statues - (1967) - shortstory by Antonio Benítez-Rojo
- Soma - (2000) - shortstory by Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar
- My Funny Valentine - shortstory by Kamau Brathwaite
- Devil Beads - shortstory by Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell
- Contributors' Notes - essay by uncredited
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