Self Narration Against The Backdrop Of HIV From Heartbreak To Daybreak

Abstract

This study seeks to analyze the representation of the impact of HIV/AIDS on a patient from the patient’s point of view. It focuses on the angle from which Wagura handles the attitudes of other people on HIV/AIDS and how she brings out her feelings as an author and persona. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the representation of the illness of HIV/AIDS in the autobiography by analyzing the theme of despair and the theme of hope through the agency of a woman and to evaluate the effectiveness of the stylistic devices employed by the writer. The hypotheses guiding this study are that Wagura’s autobiography is a journey trailing from desperation to hope and that she has employed different stylistic devices to effectively pass across her message. The study employs the theory of autobiography which helps to distinguish between an autobiographical work from other literary works. In addition, I used formalism theory. The formalists’ approach produced a theory concerned with the writer’s technical prowess and craft skill. The feminist literary theories helped me explore the female experience in the text. I used library research for qualitative reading of the secondary texts. This study concludes that despite the suffering and desperation associated with HIV/AIDS, there is breaking of the powerlessness associated with being HIV positive. This comes from a sufferer of the disease.