Mojo Conjure Stories

by Hopkinson, Nalo

• ISBN13: 9780446679299
• ISBN10: 0446679291
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Aspect
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Summary

The author of Skin Folk and Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson is renowned for combining urban literary sensibilities with the rich lore of African-Caribbean cultures. Now, in a powerful anthology of nineteen original stories that explore the perils of personal magic, she brings together some of the most honored voices in modern fantasy and brilliant new talents of African Diaspora fiction. Exploding the myths of zombies and voodoo curses, these narratives range from the ancient rites of the Ibo to the bellies of slave ships, from '20s Jim Crow to '60s Black Power, from unmarked graves at midnight to quiet suburbs at dawn -- and prove that where heartache and faith meet, you will find the crossroads for conjuring magic. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada's Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection Skin Folk was selected for the 2002 New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year. Hopkinson is also the author of The New Moon's Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and Brown Girl in the Ring. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	vii
Nalo Hopkinson
Introduction	ix
Luisah Teish
``Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull''	1	(22)
Andy Duncan
``Rosamojo''	23	(9)
Kiini Ibura Salaam
``Lark till Dawn, Princess''	32	(18)
Barth Anderson
``Heartspace''	50	(24)
Steven Barnes
``The Prowl''	74	(19)
Gregory Frost
``Fate''	93	(10)
Jenise Aminoff
``Trial Day''	103	(21)
Tananarive Due
``The Skinned''	124	(17)
Jarla Tangh
``Death's Dreadlocks''	141	(12)
Tobias S. Buckell
``Asuquo, or The Winds of Harmattan''	153	(17)
Nnedima Okorafor
``The Horsemen and the Morning Star''	170	(22)
Barbara Hambly
``She'd Make a Dead Man Crawl''	192	(20)
Gerard Houarner
``Cooking Creole''	212	(12)
A. M. Dellamonica
``White Man's Trick''	224	(35)
Eliot Fintushel
``The Tawny Bitch''	259	(24)
Nisi Shawl
``Bitter Grounds''	283	(22)
Neil Gaiman
``Shining through 24/7''	305	(15)
devorah major
``Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells''	320	(6)
Marcia Douglas
``How Sukie Cross de Big Wata''	326	(9)
Sheree Renee Thomas
About the Contributors	335