shamanic

Nietzsche, Bataille and Marechera were all shamanic because they all drilled into the inner world of the psyche and made it their adventure ground. Marechera, though, went further outside the bounds of civilisation. He experimented physically with being very, very wild. He lived the adventure on his own terms, specifically as a vagrant and one who made his own rules and was prepared to live or die on the basis of them. He recorded the impact on his psyche of following his own rules and living on his own terms. He looked at civilisation from the outside and recorded the impact of his alienation in terms of his inner landscape. In all of this he spoke to his people and his time about their limits -- political, psychological and otherwise.