Epistolary role in East African literary works on AIDS

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dc.contributor.authorMutembei, Aldin K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-29T11:11:49Z
dc.date.available2019-07-29T11:11:49Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-15
dc.descriptionLiterary works on HIV/AIDS in Africaen_US
dc.description.abstractIn East Africa, an epistle as a base for literary analysis is not common. It appears, scholars who have analyzed works of fiction or drama relating to HIV/AIDS scourge, have not considered letters inserted in those works as worth examining. Yet, letters inserted in such creative writings as a style to expound different themes are often encountered. Written artistic works on HIV/AIDS in both Kiswahili and English languages have employed this style to illustrate the HIV/AIDS crisis, as lived by characters in their fictional world. Following Wolf Schmid’s theory on narratology, supplemented with Rosenmeyer’s analytical framework (2003) the article uses an epistolary analysis as a technique for identifying themes in a literary work. The argument developed throughout this article is that epistles should be taken as a point of departure in identifying and examining different voices in the narratives on HIV/AIDS on one hand, and in understanding the psycho-social challenges which fictional characters face in their creative or imaginative world. Through this theory the epistles are juxtaposed to the Kiswahili idiom: barua ni nusu ya kuonana (literally translates as “a letter is seeing each other partially”). It would appear that the reader sees fictional characters in HIV/AIDS creative works from a certain perspective as focalized by the letters. The voices which the readers hear from these characters are all directed the letters used. Following this theory it appears that the themes related to HIV/AIDS are related to or influenced by the inserted epistles.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMutembei, A.K, 2016en_US
dc.identifier.issn2026 8297
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5287
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherrepository.unam.edu.na/handle/11070/1920en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJULACE Vol.1;No. 1
dc.subjectEpistle, epistoraly analysisen_US
dc.subjectHIV/AIDSen_US
dc.subjectKiswahilien_US
dc.subjectKiswahili Idiomen_US
dc.titleEpistolary role in East African literary works on AIDSen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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