![]() ![]() Nigerian-American Okorafor’s considerable talent as a storyteller allows her to portray the richness of the African diaspora even as she exposes the limits Western modernity has placed upon the imaginations of her characters and her readers. Okorafor’s strengths lie in her vast abilities to weave worlds organically grounded in West African-based cosmologies. Okorafor, a rising star in genre fiction, establishes her eminence with the release of The Book of Phoenix and the American release of Lagoon within a three-month period. Jemisin, Chesya Burke, and Nisi Shawl) produce works that destabilize mainstream genre fiction as they fight historical invisibility and become notable presences on their own terms. Okorafor and her fellow writers (such as Nalo Hopkinson, N. NNEDI OKORAFOR has risen as a leader of an expanding group of black women writers crafting what I term fluid fiction - a genre of literature that purposely blurs the boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, and horror in a manner that mirrors how black women confound the delineations between race, gender, and sexuality. ![]() “This wasn’t the first invasion of Nigeria, after all.” ![]()
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