45 pages • 1 hour read
Nalo HopkinsonMidnight Robber
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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How is masquerade a part of identity formation for Tan-Tan? In other words, how does the Robber Queen masque help Tan-Tan form her identity?
How do elements like settings or characters transform when included in myths? How do the anansi stories differ from the main narrative?
How does Midnight Robber engage with issues from the institution of slavery?
What does freedom mean to Antonio? To Tan-Tan? To the douen? How would you compare these definitions?
How does the act of weaving stories relate to the acts of weaving fabric and spider webs? What is threaded between all these creative acts?
Compare and contrast how gender operates between humans, deities, and douens on Toussaint, New Half-Way Tree, and anansi stories.
How is labor represented on Toussaint and New Half-Way Tree? How could physical and reproductive labor be compared?
How do musical and/or oral devices, such as rhyme and alliteration, operate in the text? Who sings, and how do songs function?
Midnight Robber is a coming-of-age story. How does Hopkinson integrate generic elements from science fiction and Afro-Caribbean folktales into Tan-Tan’s coming-of-age?
How do acts of possession—being out of one’s mind—by technology, voices fractured by trauma, and spirits function in the novel? How can implanted A.I. and PTSD symptoms be put in conversation with the ecstatic dances and performances of Carnival?
