Presuming an author’s life will inevitably find its way into his or her fiction is hardly new, but it had Whitehead contemplating how these assumptions are different for an Indigenous, Two-Spirit writer. Both books seemed to have autobiographical elements, which led to assumptions from readers or interviewers.
The novel centred on a Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer young man who revisits his reserve to attend the funeral of his stepfather. Whitehead had already found success as a poet with the 2017 collection Full-Metal Indigiqueer prior to releasing Jonny Appleseed. I think of it as behind-the-scenes of what Jonny Appleseed was and is.”
Flash-forward a year from 2019 to mid-2020, and I think I’ve got a book on my hands here. In the stasis of the writing of this as I moved from questions about ethics or perhaps questioning or extraction, I also then had to move into very personal things such as my mental health and sexual assault. One of the questions I wrestle with in Making Love with the Land is that I think it’s a boon as a writer to be able to transform personal experience or pain or even love into story, but also it becomes a practice that can be harmful as a person versus a writer when you master the ability to put things into illusion and put things into story. “COVID called for so much stasis and so much self-reflection… As a Capricorn, I’m very good at repression.
“As I did that, of course, COVID hit and I had nothing else to do except sit at home by myself all day, every day in the imprisoning mundane, I would say,” says Whitehead, who will be at Memorial Park Library as part of Wordfest’s Imaginairium on Oct. He began examining his role in literary festivals and academia and the sort of questions and assumptions that came up during media interviews and Q&As. Writing the essays in Making Love with the Land was initially meant to be a personal exercise for the writer, a way of processing his experiences as a Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indiqueer who had become a literary star thanks to the response to his debut novel, 2018’s Giller longlisted, Governor General’s shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning Jonny Appleseed. Whitehead had not planned on writing a book of non-fiction. “Of course, the personal will always come back to the work, specifically someone who writes up and from the body. “Having learned what I learned from writing this book, I want to do something that is joyful and fun and in the realm of fiction and perhaps is not me bloodletting onto the page continually,” he says. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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