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GeofCoxI 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">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</a>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.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...So there is I think an interesting connection between the rigidity of Adiche's thinking on this and a key limitation of her writing.(Before anyone asks, I haven't read Akwaeke Emezi, so can't comment...)<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Americanah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americanah</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SallyRooney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SallyRooney</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AkwaekeEmezi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AkwaekeEmezi</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a>

Alter Account von Anne Roth"She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama's humour, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews."'<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Americanah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americanah</a>', by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Such a wonderful book.I wonder how it was received in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Nigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nigeria</a> - <a href="https://nerdculture.de/@xeenarh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@xeenarh</a> ? (Also, haven't finished it yet, don't spoil!)

Zuentzat<a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/Americanah" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Americanah</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/liburua" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#liburua</a>-ren filma ikusi nahiko nuke!<a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</a><a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/Nigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/Londres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Londres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/AEB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AEB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/herrimina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#herrimina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/emigrazioa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#emigrazioa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/maitasuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#maitasuna</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/igbo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#igbo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/hausa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#hausa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.eus/tags/joruba" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#joruba</a> <a href="https://labur.eus/wCiO0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://labur.eus/wCiO0</a>

Alejandro Gaita Ariño 🐌 :ecoanarchism_heart:Acabo de leer el <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/libro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libro</a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/americanah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americanah</a> (de Chimamanda Ngozi <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/adichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adichie</a>, la de "Todos deberíamos ser <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/feministas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feministas</a>", "Querida Ijeawele. Cómo educar en el <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/feminismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminismo</a>" y "El peligro de la historia única"). Precisamente esas eran las tres obras que había leído de ellas: las tres brillantes y brevísimas, y las tres de no-ficción. (¡Leedlas!)Adichie como novelista me ha impresionado y admirado, pero me gusta (aún) más como ensayista. En Americanah, de hecho, intercala multitud de mini-ensayos en forma de entradas de blog que escribe Ifemelu, la protagonista, sobre ser <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/negro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#negro</a> en Estados Unidos (incluidas las diferencias entre los inmigrantes y los descendientes de esclavos, y sobre cómo es al llegar a <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/am%C3%A9rica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#América</a> desde <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/%C3%A1frica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#África</a> cuando empiezas a ser negro). Un poco a través de estos ensayos, y bastante a través de la historia, Adichie nos ayuda a aprender sobre <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/nigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nigeria</a>, sobre Estados Unidos, y sobre la vida de <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/migrantes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrantes</a> racializades, no solo en América sino también en Europa.

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