Questions tagged [midnight-robber]
Questions about Nalo Hopkinson's novel *Midnight Robber* (2000), a coming-of-age story set on a Caribbean-colonised planet. Use this tag with the [nalo-hopkinson] tag.
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Why does Tan-Tan name her child Tubman?
At the end of Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber (2000), Tan-Tan, the main character, gives birth to a boy.
Her friend Melonhead asks how she will name him:
"Tubman." Tan-Tan surprised herself, ...
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How do people "kiss their teeth" in Nalo Hopkinson's novels?
At the start of the novel Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson, one of the characters, Makeda, is looking for a new place to live. A certain Milo rents out "units" in what he calls "warehouse living" and ...
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Relevance of the cloud chariot story to the rest of Midnight Robber?
Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber contains a story entitled "How Tan-Tan Learn to Thief". It is one of the many elements from Caribbean culture that Hopkinson draws on in the novel.
The story is ...
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Origin of Dry Bone in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber contains a story entitled "Tan-Tan and Dry Bone". It is one of the many elements from Caribbean culture that Hopkinson draws on in the novel. Hopkinson's novel ...
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Relevance of Findlay's poem 'Stolen' to Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber (published in 2000) is prefaced by the poem "Stolen" by David Findlay. According to the novel's colophon, the poem's copyright is dated 1997. However, according ...
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