5).Īs a reader, I gravitate towards fiction.Īutofiction-an autobiography surrounded by mythological context, rebirthed And yeah, I've learned a lot about surrender since writing the book.Instantly, the first chapter of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi introduces a peculiar, dissociative predicament, “By the time she (our body) struggled out into the world, slick and louder than a village of storms, the gates were left open…We were not conscious but we were alive-in fact, the main problem was that we were a distinct we instead of being fully and just her” (p. I just allow them to move however they want to move and morph. I'm not trying to assign names or separate them. But when people ask who they're speaking to, I'm like, "I don't know it's shifting." I'm not trying to control it anymore.
Like that's the image I have for it, is like a cloud of selves that are shifting, and occasionally one or two will precipitate out. And for me, now when I think of having a multiple self and what that feels like, I describe it as a boiling cloud. But by the time I was done with the book, and I think something that Ada comes to closer at the end of Freshwater, is an acceptance of what's happening and a bit of, like, she loses that impulse to try and separate it out so much. I had someone ask me after I finished the novel, and they read it, and they were like, "Oh, so when I'm talking to you, which self am I talking to?" And I understood the question, because if - the way it's written in the book, it is that separate. I also have a clarity around just a multiplicity of being, I think. On how Emezi feels after writing the novel
And with my work, I'm not really interested in trying to convince anyone to shift their center, I'm just refusing to shift mine.
And that's how colonialism worked in great part - people came in and enforced a reality and said, "Well, if you believe in anything else, if you believe in your indigenous deities, if you believe in these spiritual entities, then you're ignorant and you're backwards, and it's only because you haven't been educated by the West." And you know, there's this everything that is outside the dominant reality becomes something that's pathological. I think part of the thing that's a problem, really, in the world today is this inability to acknowledge multiple realities, and this insistence that there has to be one dominant reality, and everything that falls outside that reality is false and untrue. I think everyone's centered in their own reality, you know. Fine Art MacArthur 'Genius' Paints Nigerian Childhood Alongside Her American Present
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