Em uma entrevista, a escritora nigeriana Ayobami Adebayo
refletiu sobre os personagens principais (Yejide e Akin) e o
contexto sociopolítico de seu romance Stay With Me.
ae e While writing, | also started thinking
a about the middle class in Nigeria. When
Yejide visits her mother-in-law, there's a
very low fence in front of their house. It's
barely a fence. When Yejide and Akin
e build their own house in the early
nineties, they erect a fence that’s higher
é Sl than the house. You cant see inside.
Ze, e» avobpimi That was something | observed about
Ss AvEBAYO architecture in Nigeria—that at some
point, probably in the eighties and nineties, when things
became quite turbulent and there was all of this insecurity,
one of the ways the people who could afford to insulate
themselves against what was going on did was to build
higher fences, to use money as a shield in a sense. |
wanted that political turbulence to play in the background.
(Adaptado de https://www .theparisreview.org/blog/2017/08/08/great-expectations
-interview-ayobami-adebayo/. Acessado em 21/07/2020.)
Segundo a autora, as casas e as cercas na Nigéria
representam
a) o poder aquisitivo da classe média e sua tentativa de
se distanciar da realidade política.
b) a desigualdade social e seus impactos para a
turbulência política enfatizada no romance.
c) a tentativa da classe média de exercer um impacto na
realidade política nos anos 1980 e 1990.
d) a violência e a corrupção dos anos 1980 e 1990 e seus
impactos nos personagens do romance.