Literature-medicine and scenography of the psychological trauma in Blasius Ngome's J'ai le Sida

Abstract

Literature-medicine (2015) is a fictional variant that addresses issues of disease in the literary space. In I have AIDS, Blasius Ngome presents a character weakened by a psychologically destabilising apprehension: he thinks he is the bearer of HIV/ HIV. The author then leads the reader in the maze of a suspenseful story whose plot is punctuated by numerous narrative maneuvers. How does the narration of this malaise develop, which plunges the hero of Ngome into a haunting traumatism that subjugates him from the beginning to the end of the story? Socio-criticism and psycho-criticism guide our reflection. Both take into account the immanence of literary analysis. Moreover, the first theory fits skillfully into the second, while the second opens the way to a “bewitching network” and a display of the author's “personal myth” that is negotiated through the constituent elements of diegesis. We conclude by examining the outline of the demiurge's message in the face of this pandemic that continues to ravage in the cities of the world many decades after the discovery of its existence.