Daring to Be Different: The First-Person HIV-Positive Narrator in Two South African Novels
Masande Ntshanga’s novel The Reactive (2014) is the first South African novel written by a black male writer to feature the first-person voice of an HIV-positive man, Lindanathi. Following Kgebetli Moele’s The Book of the Dead (2009), which gave the virus itself a voice, The Reactive heralds a sign...
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| Main Author: | Lizzy Attree |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Johannesburg
2022-09-01
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| Series: | The Thinker |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/1456 |
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