Telling Old Stories in New Ways

Selman, Jan; Battye, John

doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-483-1_13

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“…The tribe then attacked, but Luanda Magere pushed the Kalenjin warriors back until one warrior recalled that it was Luanda Magere's shadow which gave him power. Throwing a spear at the shadow, the warrior vanquished Luanda Magere (Miruka 2001;Nzuki 1972;Selman and Battye 2016).…”

Section: Luanda Magere and Tragic Hero Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Illness Narratives Without the Illness: Biomedical HIV Prevention Narratives from East Africa

Johnson-Peretz,

Atwine,

Kamya

et al. 2024

J Med Humanit

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Illness narratives invite practitioners to understand how biomedical and traditional health information is incorporated, integrated, or otherwise internalized into a patient’s own sense of self and social identity. Such narratives also reveal cultural values, underlying patterns in society, and the overall life context of the narrator. Most illness narratives have been examined from the perspective of European-derived genres and literary theory, even though theorists from other parts of the globe have developed locally relevant literary theories. Further, illness narratives typically examine only the experience of illness through acute or chronic suffering (and potential recovery). The advent of biomedical disease prevention methods like post- and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP and PrEP) for HIV, which require daily pill consumption or regular injections, complicates the notion of an illness narrative by including illness prevention in narrative accounts. This paper has two aims. First, we aim to rectify the Eurocentrism of existing illness narrative theory by incorporating insights from African literary theorists; second, we complicate the category by examining prevention narratives as a subset of illness narratives. We do this by investigating several narratives of HIV prevention from informants enrolled in an HIV prevention trial in Kenya and Uganda in 2022.

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Section: Luanda Magere and Tragic Hero Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Illness Narratives Without the Illness: Biomedical HIV Prevention Narratives from East Africa

Johnson-Peretz,

Atwine,

Kamya

et al. 2024

J Med Humanit

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“…As part of the project, the largely Luo group of artists investigated what could lie behind the story, asking, for example, “who is the enemy?” and “why do we hate them?” (Selman & Battye, 2016, 2017). By exploring the enemy's motivations through enacting challenges they may have faced, by fleshing out symbolic characters and stereotypes (the unbeatable warrior, the sexy spy, etc.)…”

Section: Old Stories In New Ways: Challenging Binaries and Making Changementioning

confidence: 99%