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Lesering.de<p>Was Druckfrisch am 30. März verspricht <a href="https://www.lesering.de/id/4938771/Vier-Leben-kein-Klischee---Was-Druckfrisch-am-30-Maerz-verspricht/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lesering.de/id/4938771/Vier-Le</span><span class="invisible">ben-kein-Klischee---Was-Druckfrisch-am-30-Maerz-verspricht/</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Spiegel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spiegel</span></a>-Bestsellerliste <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/LiteraturimFernsehen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraturimFernsehen</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/EmmanuelCarr%C3%A8re" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmmanuelCarrère</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/PhilipK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilipK</span></a>.Dick <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/AndreasMaier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndreasMaier</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/DenisScheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DenisScheck</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Druckfrisch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Druckfrisch</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/DreamCount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DreamCount</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/ARD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARD</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a></p>
GeofCox<p>I came to this interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie having only read one of her books (Americanah), but I think my reaction to that novel informed my reading of the interview, and the controversy over her thoughts on trans women, in an interesting way - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/15/cancel-culture-we-should-stop-it-end-of-story-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-backlash-writers-block-and-her-two-new-babies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2025/feb</span><span class="invisible">/15/cancel-culture-we-should-stop-it-end-of-story-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-backlash-writers-block-and-her-two-new-babies</span></a></p><p>Although a good book in many ways, for me Americanah had one glaring weakness: Adiche can't write men. When the couple at the centre of Americanah are separated, her in the US and he in the UK, her experience is richly imagined and written - his is thin and unconvincing. Contrast this with, say, Sally Rooney, who seems to be able to imagine her way into the minds of both men and women with equal facility.</p><p>So in a way Adiche's assumption that you can't really be a woman if you've been socialised as a man came as no surprise: it predicates a conclusion about being 'fully' female on the assumption that male-female categories are fundamental. It misses, at the simplest level, the fact that trans women are not treated as men in the same way that men are treated as men, because they are in fact women (inside) being treated as men. At a deeper level, it misses the real complexity of human experience, mistaking a conceptualisation for reality - precisely what other ways of seeing do, but which art shouldn't. At the level of real experience (the novel's true subject) nobody is ever socialised in the same way, because socialisation is always already different in different societies, families, times, etc...</p><p>So there is I think an interesting connection between the rigidity of Adiche's thinking on this and a key limitation of her writing.</p><p>(Before anyone asks, I haven't read Akwaeke Emezi, so can't comment...)</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Americanah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americanah</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SallyRooney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SallyRooney</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AkwaekeEmezi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AkwaekeEmezi</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a></p>
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