Narrating Feminine Rebellion, Dynamism and Resilience in Meja Mwangi’sThe Last Plague

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dc.contributor.authorMutie, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorRutere, Albert Mugambi
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-20T13:19:27Z
dc.date.available2024-03-20T13:19:27Z
dc.date.issued2024-03
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe postcolonial literature that underscores feminist realization has used varied ways to engage and interrogate the many aspects of the fight against the enduring grip of patriarchy. However, as this paper shows, to defeat the plague, believable human effort laced with such enduring virtues as dynamism and resilience should be cultivated. This paper argues that Meja Mwangi’s The Last Plague is an inspiring metaphor that, with a slant, narrates female rebellion, dynamism and resilience in taming HIV/AIDS in the context of cultural and patriarchal resistance. What Janet and right-minded people like Frank do to have people accept the plague is real and can be deduced through acceptance and change of people’s sexual behaviour. Thus, using Psychoanalytic and Feminism theories, this paper examines the apparent resistance to combating HIV/AIDS and the reasons why Janet rebels and, with evident dynamism and resilience, at first and second, take a bold step to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Using The Last Plague as the unit of analysis, the paper utilizes a close reading textual analysis methodology for data collection, analysis, discussion and presentation. This paper argues that ‘The Last Plague’ is a metaphor for HIV/AIDS, and in Mwangi’s thinking, this disease is wiping humanity to the bubonic plague level.en_US
dc.identifier.citationStephen, M., & Mugambi, R. A. (2024). Narrating Feminine Rebellion, Dynamism and Resilience in Meja Mwangi’s" The Last Plague". LIFT: The Journal of Literature and Performing Arts, (3), 85-100.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://journals.mu.ac.ke/index.php/lift/article/view/371
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/27755
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherLIFTen_US
dc.subjectNarrativeen_US
dc.subjectRebellionen_US
dc.subjectDynamismen_US
dc.subjectResilienceen_US
dc.subjectPlagueen_US
dc.subjectHIV/AIDSen_US
dc.titleNarrating Feminine Rebellion, Dynamism and Resilience in Meja Mwangi’sThe Last Plagueen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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