The Moons of Palmares

TitleThe Moons of Palmares
Year for Search1997
AuthorsAmadahy, Zainab(b.1956)
Date Published1997
PublisherSister Vision Black Women and Women of Color Press
Place PublishedToronto, ON, Canada
KeywordsAfrican American author, Canadian author, Female author, Native American author
Annotation

Dystopia of commercial exploitation of a colony for its mineral resources and the successful fight for independence.

Additional Publishers

An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 171-81 with an editor’s note on 171-73. 

Holding Institutions

Merril

Author Note

The female author, of African American and Cherokee ancestry, was born in the U.S. and moved to Canada in 1975.

Full Text

1997 Amadahy, Zainab (b. 1956). The Moons of Palmares. Toronto, ON, Canada: Sister Vision Black Women and Women of Color Press. An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 171-81 with an editor’s note on 171-73. Merril

Dystopia of commercial exploitation of a colony for its mineral resources and the successful fight for independence. The female author, of African American and Cherokee ancestry, was born in the U.S. and moved to Canada in 1975.