Lagoon (novel)

Lagoon
First edition
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
Cover artistJoey Hi-Fi
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Set inLagos, Nigeria, 2010
Published2014
PublisherHodder and Stoughton

Lagoon is an Africanfuturist first contact novel by Nnedi Okorafor (2014, Hodder & Stoughton; 2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster). It has drawn much scholarly attention since its publication, some of which was written before Okorafor's important clarification that her work is "Africanfuturist" rather than "Afrofuturist."[1][2][3][4] In 2014 it was chosen as an honor list title for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.[5]

Lagoon originated as a screenplay Okorafor wrote for Nollywood director Tchidi Chikere, after both were frustrated with "abysmal stereotyping" of Nigerians in the South African film District 9.[6]

  1. ^ Esthie Hugo (2017) Looking forward, looking back: animating magic, modernity and the African city-future in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon, Social Dynamics, 43:1, 46-58, doi:10.1080/02533952.2017.1345528.
  2. ^ Melody Jue, 'Intimate Objectivity: On Nnedi Okorafor's Oceanic Afrofuturism', WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 45.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2017), 171-88, doi:10.1353/wsq.2017.0022.
  3. ^ O'Connell, Hugh Charles (2016). "'We are change': The Novum as Event in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon". Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 3 (3): 291–312. doi:10.1017/pli.2016.24. S2CID 192129602.
  4. ^ Michael Paye (2019) Beyond A Capitalist Atlantic: Fish, Fuel, and the Collapse of Cheap Nature in Ireland, Newfoundland, and Nigeria, 'Irish University Review', 49.1, 117-34, doi:10.3366/iur.2019.0384
  5. ^ Notkin, Debbie (13 April 2015). "The 2014 Tiptree Award winner has been selected!". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  6. ^ Tubosun, Kola (2013-05-07). "Nigeria: when aliens took Lagos". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-10.