"When Scarabs Multiply"
Title | "When Scarabs Multiply" |
Year for Search | 2004 |
Authors | Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]](b. 1974) |
Secondary Authors | Hopkinson, [Noelle] Nalo(b. 1960), and Mehan, Uppinder |
Tertiary Authors | Okorafor, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili](b. 1974), and Hopkinson, Nalo |
Secondary Title | So Long Been Dreaming |
Pagination | 70-78 |
Date Published | 2004 |
Publisher | Arsenal Pulp Press |
Place Published | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
Keywords | African American author, Female author |
Annotation | Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | African American female author (b. 1974) of Igbo heritage. |
Full Text | 2004 Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] (b. 1974). “When Scarabs Multiply.” So Long Been Dreaming. Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004), 70-78. PSt Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts. African American female author of Igbo heritage. |