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    Stigma and the metaphorics of language : reading disease as dis-ease and reclaiming metaphor in selected contemporary South African literature
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12) Schneider, Carron; Mbao, Wamuwi; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of English.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary South African literature dealing with HIV/AIDS and depression serves to interrogate and expose the racist ideological foundations for the stigmatic language of metaphor which surrounds these diseases. There is an increasing literary urgency and necessity for a reimaging, retracing and rewriting of the language(s) of metaphor which surround these diseases not only in the South African literary context, but also in the greater socio-political context of the country. This thesis ultimately concludes that the South African literary works offered for study work toward reclaiming metaphor by re-appropriating the same linguistic building blocks from which stigma, as language of metaphor, has been itself constructed. In so doing, this study concludes, these authors effectively write toward a more comprehensive and inclusive understanding of both HIV/AIDS and depression.