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I was introduced to Nalo Hopkinson, a Canadian-Jamaican writer of Science Fiction Fantasy, during my North America Project last year, when I read, and loved, her second novel, Midnight Robber (2001). Hopkinson is notable for using African-Jamaican culture in SF and post-apocalyptic settings, though this time, The Salt Roads (2003), which is more Fantasy than SF and more MR than Fantasy, has historical settings.
I am not sure what to do about MR and non-European writing. In most things we are happy to let the original owners tell us what the names should be, but there doesn’t yet appear to be a consensus on how to talk about/what name to give to the widespread use of spirit figures in contemporary fiction. In white fiction it’s easier. It’s Fantasy, made up, and only very loosely derived from old legends.
We have been using the name Magic Realism, since at least Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but African and Indigenous writers say they resent their representations of the spirit world being called ‘magic’. I have no time for Roman Catholicism (and I actively despise its male hierarchy), nor for Pentecostals, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists and Scientologists, but I think that we should give similar weight to African and Indigenous
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Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican Canadian writer (born 1960)
Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels – Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), The New Moon's Arms (2007) – and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk (2001) often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies: Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction and Mojo: Conjure Stories. She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan of the 2004 anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, and with Geoff Ryman co-edited Tesseracts 9.
Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel Whylah Falls on the CBC's Canada Reads 2002. She was the curator of Six Impossible Things, an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One.
As of 2021, she lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2020, Hopkinson was named the 37th Damon Knight Grand Master, in recognition of "lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy".[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Nalo Hopkinson was born 20 December 1960 in Kingston