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Imaro
| Author: | Charles R. Saunders |
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Night Shade Books, 2006 DAW Books, 1981 |
| Series: | Imaro: Book 1 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Sword and Sorcery Heroic Fantasy Dark Fantasy |
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Synopsis
This work is a selction from author Nisi Shawl's: A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction, an annotated list of 40+ black science fiction works that are important to your understanding of its history. Read more about this selection below.
- Tor.com Blog: With a Mighty Bound: Imaro by Charles Saunders
Saunders' novel fuses the narrative style of fantasy fiction with a pre-colonial, alternate Africa. Inspired by and directly addresses the alienation of growing up an African American fan of Science Fiction and Fantasy, which to this day remains a very ethnically homogonous genre. It addresses this both structurally (via its unique setting) and thematically (via its alienated, tribeless hero-protagonist). The tribal tensions and histories presented in this fantasy novel reflect actual African tribal histories and tensions, and provide a unique perspective to current and recent conflicts in Africa, particularly the Rwandan genocide and the ongoing conflict in The Sudan.
Note: Imaro is a fixup novel. In the Night Shade Edition one story is excanged for another compared to the original DAW edition.
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