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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root

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Cover artist
  
Michel Ange Altidort

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2000

Originally published
  
2000

Genre
  
Science Fiction

OCLC
  
44502440

3.8/5
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Country
  
United States

Publisher
  
Invisible Cities Press

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Author
  
Nalo Hopkinson

Editor
  
Nalo Hopkinson

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Nominations
  
World Fantasy Award—Anthology, Locus Award for Best Anthology

Similar
  
Skin Folk, Mojo: Conjure Stories, The New Moon's Arms, The Salt Roads, Brown Girl in the Ring

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction is an anthology of speculative fiction by Caribbean authors, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and published by Invisible Cities Press in 2000. It was nominated for the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. The book is out-of-print. Reviewing it in 2002, James Schellenberg wrote: "Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root is recommended to anyone interested in Caribbean culture. Hopkinson has done wonderful work at organizing and presenting the stories."

Contents

Stories

The stories are grouped in seven sections:

’Membah

  • Marcia Douglas, "What the Periwinkle Remember" [from Madam Fate]
  • Wilson Harris, "Yurokon"
  • Tobias S. Buckell, "Spurn Babylon"

    • Science

  • Roger McTair, "Just a Lark (or the Crypt of Matthew Ashdown)"
  • Claude-Michel Prévost, "Tears for Érsulie Frèda: Men without Shadow"

    • Blood Thicker More Than Water

  • H. Nigel Thomas, "The Village Cock" [“How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow?”]
  • Ismith Khan, "Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar"
  • Jamaica Kincaid, "My Mother"

    • The Broad Dutty Water

  • Olive Senior, "Mad Fish"
  • Opal Palmer Adisa, "Widows’ Walk"
  • Pamela Mordecai, "Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia"

    • Crick Crack

  • Lillian Allen, "In the Beginning"
  • Geoffrey Philp, "Uncle Obadiah and the Alien"
  • Robert Antoni, "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"
  • Ian McDonald, "Pot O’ Rice Horowitz’s House of Solace"

    • Down Inside the Chute

  • Nalo Hopkinson, "Glass Bottle Trick"
  • Antonio Benítez-Rojo, "Buried Statues"
  • Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, "Soma"

    • Dream

  • Kamau Brathwaite, "My Funny Valentine"
  • marina ama omowale maxwell, "Devil Beads"

    • References

    Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root Wikipedia
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