So, this is a topic we talked about a little in class today, but since my paper is on posthumanism, I’m having a little trouble thinking about anything else, so I’m going to go for it anyways.
To my mind, this is one of the most anti-posthumanist novels we’ve read thus far in the class, which I find most interesting considering just how little the novel exposes us to advanced technology, since most of the storyline takes place in the primitive society of New Half-Way Tree.

I was thinking about how Hopkinson's dialect critiques the normal technology-centric language of science fiction books, and the name "Eshu" came to mind. Looking it up on Wikipedia reveals some cool things (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshu):