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.
Publisher
University Of Nairobi
Subject
The Backdrop Of HIVRights
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