Research Catalog

Title

Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson / edited by Isiah Lavender III.

Publication

• Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Lavender, Isiah, III

Description

xvii, 253 pages : illustration; 23 cm.

Summary

"A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine--project complex futures and complex identities for people of color in terms of race, sex, and gender. Hopkinson has always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic diversity in all facets of speculative fiction from its writers to its readers, and this desire is reflected in her award-winning anthologies. Her work best represents the current and ongoing colored wave of science fiction in the twenty-first century. In twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 until 2021, Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humor in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism, queer identities, sexuality, Caribbean folklore, and postcolonial science fictions, among other things. As a result, the conversations presented here very much demonstrate the uniqueness of her mind and her influence as a writer." --Publisher.

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series.

Subject

• Hopkinson, Nalo > Interviews
• 1900-2099
• African American women authors > 20th century > Interviews
• African American women authors > 21st century > Interviews
• Authors, Jamaican > 20th century > Interviews
• Authors, Jamaican > 21st century > Interviews
• Science fiction > Women authors > 20th century > Interviews
• Science fiction > Women authors > 21st century > Interviews
• African American women authors
• Authors, Jamaican
• Science fiction > Women authors
• Science fiction

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Nalo Hopkinson: Many Perspectives / Charles Brown -- Speaking in Tongues: An Interview with Science Fiction Writer Nalo Hopkinson / Gregory E. Rutledge -- Interview: Nalo Hopkinson / Mary Anne Mohanraj -- An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Christian Wolff -- Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / David M. Switzer -- Nalo Hopkinson: Winging It / Charles Brown -- An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Dianne D. Glave -- A Conversation with Nalo Hopkinson / Jeni Watson-Aifah -- "Making the Impossible Possible": An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Alondra Nelson -- Breakdown or Breakthrough: A Conversation with Nalo Hopkinson on Race and the Science Fiction Community / Isiah Lavender -- Conjuring Caribbean Moonbeams: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Michael Lohr -- "Happy That It's Here": An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Nancy Johnston -- AE Interviews: Nalo Hopkinson / Paul Jarvey -- "Correcting the Balance": Outspoken Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Terry Bisson -- Interview: Nalo Hopkinson / David Barr Kirtley -- Somehow Declasse: Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Jonathan Strahan -- Writing from the Body: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Jessica FitzPatrick -- Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Tiffany Davis -- Waving at Trains: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Avni Sejpal -- SLF Portolan Project Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Los Angeles, California, 2019 / Mary Anne Mohanraj -- "Fresh": A Second Conversation with Nalo Hopkinson on Life, the Academy, Race, and the Science Fiction Community / Isiah Lavender.

Call Number

Sc E 23-401

ISBN

• 1496843681
• 9781496843685
• 9781496843678
• 1496843673

OCLC

1316775153

Title

Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson / edited by Isiah Lavender III.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary conversations series

Literary conversations series.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Lavender, Isiah, III, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-401