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Specious Species Taxonomies: Porosity and Interspecies Constellations in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
ABSTRACT Nalo Hopkinson’s Afrofuturist novel Midnight Robber (2000) is a stellar example of postcolonial science narratives which imagine kinship connections between human and non-human characters and entities. Ties that develop between species in tandem with the novel’s cyborg characters showcase the porosity of species boundaries, entangling interspecies connections within a frame of Afrofuturist porosity. Moreover, Midnight Robber uses non-human species as a foil to explore colonial legacies and ties the negotiation of species taxonomies to postcolonial criticism and Afrofuturism. As a postcolonial Bildungsroman, Midnight Robber triangulates narrative strategies, Afrofuturism, and interspecies relations by renegotiating modes of sociality in order to reconsider violent implications of science and how they can be undone. Bringing into dialog Afrofuturist, postcolonial, interspecies, and literary studies, this chapter aims to explore how Hopkinson’s novel uses the genre of the Bildungsroman and sutures together Afrofuturism, porosity, and interspecies kinship in search of a more egalitarian future.
KEYWORDS Afrofuturism, interspecies kinship, porosity, postcolonial speculative fiction
