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   May 27, 2021 · May 27, 2021 5:15 PM EDT. Akwaeke Emezi has taken off their masks—the ones we all wear that grin and lie, as poet Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote. The ones that hide and shade more than our cheeks ...

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3. www.them.us › story › akwaeke-emezi-new-memoir-dearAkwaeke Emezi’s New Memoir Asks Us to See the Masks We Wear ...

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   Jun 8, 2021 · June 8, 2021. Penguin Random House. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir begins at the coast of the Black Sea, with author Akwaeke Emezi collecting sea water for a former lover. They approach us with detachment, with a desire to dissolve and “be withdrawn into something vaster than the immediate body.”. Nothing feels quite real.

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4. www.them.us › story › queeroes-akwaeke-emeziHow Akwaeke Emezi Is Changing the World for Black Queer and ...

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   Jun 20, 2018 · And then I thrust Emezi’s debut novel Freshwater into their hands and walk away. Emezi is absolutely radiant; their presence is magnetizing. Anyone within a 20-foot radius is drawn to the Igbo and Tamil author, who resonates at a frequency most aren’t even aware exists. When we held a conversation at Books Are Magic for the soft launch of ...

5. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Crossing the Borders of Genders and Genres: Akwaeke Emezi’s

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   Nov 23, 2023 · TIME magazine’s profile of Emezi as a Next Generation Leader included an interview titled ‘“My job in the revolution is as a storyteller”: Akwaeke Emezi is writing new possibilities into being’ (Anderson 2021).

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6. www.marieclaire.com › culture › akwaeke-emezi-interviewAkwaeke Emezi on Their New Book 'You Made a Fool of Death ...

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   May 20, 2022 · Akwaeke Emezi Writes About the Messiness of Finding Love. The author of the highly anticipated new novel 'You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty' on writing an unconventional love story and the ...

7. www.newyorker.com › books › page-turnerA Startling Début Novel Explores the Freedom of Being Multiple

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   Feb 26, 2018 · February 26, 2018. Akwaeke Emezi’s début novel, “Freshwater,” pinpoints the nebulous pain of being imprisoned in a physical form. Photograph by Elizabeth Wirija. A recent interview with the ...

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   Is Akwaeke Emezi an ogbanje?

   • A recent interview with the author Akwaeke Emezi, whose début novel is called “ Freshwater ,” refers to certain autobiographical “realities” in which the book is rooted—realities that include Emezi’s “identity . . . as an ogbanje.” An ogbanje, Emezi has explained is “an Igbo spirit that’s born into a human body, a kind of malevolent trickster.”

   A Startling Début Novel Explores the Freedom of Being Multiple

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   Who is Akwaeke Emezi?

   • Author and artist Akwaeke Emezi photographed in their home in New Orleans, LA on May 4, 2021. “The first words that come to mind are terrifying and lonely, ” Emezi responds when asked about the process of unfolding into, or standing in, their power, because “unfolding comes with costs.”

   Author Akwaeke Emezi Is Writing New Possibilities Into Being

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   What is 'freshwater' by Akwaeke Emezi about?

   • Katy Waldman writes that “Freshwater,” Akwaeke Emezi's début novel, is a study in dysphoria that explores the paradox of trying to trace a self that is defined by indefinability.

   A Startling Début Novel Explores the Freedom of Being Multiple

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   Can Poietic literature be a world-making narrative?

   • It is in the initially marginal space of border-crossing that the poietic nature of literature can be enabled, de facto creating a world-making narrative of resistance against such preconceived structures.

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   Akwaeke Emezi Is Writing New Possibilities Into Being. GOOD MORNING AMERICA — This week’s ‘GMA’ Buzz Pick is ‘The Death of Vivek Oji’ by Akwaeke Emezi. DEADLINE — Amazon, Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society Land Akwaeke Emezi Novel ‘You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty’ NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED — 'Vivek Oji' Is Very ...