Remember that Marechera was also receiving the colonial debris at the other side of the equation. So whatever was denied about the colonial culture – it’s undercurrent of madness and waste, and its lack of permission for visceral experiences and exposure to madness – all of these things Marechera brought to the fore. And that was right, because in many senses these elements were the cure. Think of it in terms of wholeness. If one is rigidly self-disciplined and single-minded, but lacking in imagination, the underside or shadow of this will be in terms of the opposite psychological, social and political characteristics. And you can’t really be whole, psychologically, unless you swing into the opposite and revisit what you have denied.
At least I found this to be very much the case for myself.
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