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DEAR SENTHURAN, THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI, PET, FRESHWATER, CW: EVERYTHING (2022), YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY (2022)
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It’s like ~5% fiction in the childhood parts of the book, and the rest is straight memoir from a spirit first perspective. The conversations between the selves were literally copy pasted from my journals.https://twitter.com/Kanyinsolaa_/status/1327941946661367808 …
https://twitter.com/azemezi/status/1327940339894800385 …I let it move as fiction because it needed that mask as my debut, you know? I don’t believe it would have been published as nonfiction because it would have required acknowledging that indigenous realities aren’t myths.
Even that ~5% is questionable, because as someone once pointed out, memoir has always included reconstructed memories that aren’t viewed as fictional. E.g. Frank McCourt fully writing dialogue he couldn’t possibly remember from when he was a child in Angela’s Ashes.
But the people it was written for always knew it wasn’t fictional, so the mask was irrelevant. We know what is real, down to our bones and spirit, we always have.
Shouldn't it then be categorized as autofiction?
Yes. It's tagged autobiographical fiction.
"it would have required acknowledging that indigenous realities aren’t myths." Thank you for this. It brings up a bias I didn't realize I had, and I will do the work necessary to shed that bias. Your work is amazing and I love Freshwater with all my soul.
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