Whispers from the cotton tree root : Caribbean fabulist fiction / edited by Nalo Hopkinson.
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| Language: | English |
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Montpelier, Vt. :
Invisible Cities Press,
[2000], ©2000.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Local Note: |
MSU: Gift of James Tiptree, Jr. Award.
MSU: The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 318 pages ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 'Membah. What the periwinkle remember / Marcia Douglas
- Yurokon / Wilson Harris
- Spurn Babylon / Tobias S. Buckell ; Science. Just a lark (or the crypt of Matthew Ashdown) / Roger McTair
- Tears for Ersulie Freda : men without shadow / Claude-Michel Prevost ; Blood thicker more than water. The village cock / H. Nigel Thomas
- Shadows move in the Britannia Bar / Ismith Khan
- My mother / Jamaica Kincaid ; The broad dutty water. Mad fish / Olive Senior
- Widows' walk / Opal Palmer Adisa
- Once on the shores of the stream Senegambia / Pamela Mordecai ; Crick crack. In the beginning / Lillian Allen
- Uncle Obadiah and the alien / 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 / Robert Antoni
- Pot O'Rice Horowitz's house of solace / Ian McDonald ; Down inside the chute. Glass bottle trick / Nalo Hopkinson
- Buried statues / Antonio Benitez-Rojo
- Soma / Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar ; Dream. My funny valentine / Kamau Brathwaite
- Devil beads / Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell.