Exploring silences among child victims of rape in The Sun Will Rise Again and The Kite Runner

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dc.contributor.authorMunjanga, Angellah
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-13T08:09:49Z
dc.date.available2022-07-13T08:09:49Z
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.descriptionTHESIS PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT THE NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NUST) SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR SARALA KRISHNAMURTHYen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores silences among child victims of rape in The Sun Will Rise Again (1999) and The Kite Runner (2003) basing on the trauma and resilience theoretical framework. The research explores rape as a source of trauma and silence as heightening the trauma while speaking up is established as a resilience strategy. The aim of the research was to establish the different kinds of silences associated with child rape victims, the factors perpetuating these silences, how male and female child victims of rape respond to the rape experiences and how these experiences endured in silence influences the future of the child victims. Applying trauma theory to the analysis of the two texts enabled the researcher to establish the effects of rape and silence on the child victims as males and as females since the selected texts under study each looked on one specific gender. This also allowed for an objective review of the gendered nature of rape and rape trauma. The study was a desktop qualitative research guided by constructivist perspectives of research, following a phenomenological research paradigm. The research focused on the lived experiences of child rape victims in the two texts and thematic analysis of the two main themes of rape and silence was thoroughly conducted. The research found that while rape has the same damaging effects on boys and girls, it is experienced differently, and the degree of damage differs from person to person. Boys and girls respond to rape differently and the factors perpetuating silence among child rape victims differ as well. However, despite the differences, speaking up about rape has the same healing effects, affords justice and forgiveness though these may be attained at different rates. The texts studied are from different continents, one Asian and the other African thus showing that rape phenomenon cuts across race, space and time. Recommendations from the research included that this research be pursued further from an interdisciplinary perspective incorporating literary and sociology and anthropology to further cement the relationship between literature and society. Another recommendation was the need for an increase in the amount of trauma literature in Africa especially centered on male child victims of rape and also told using the child narrative voice.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMunjanga, A. (2021). Exploring silences among child victims of rape in The Sun Will Rise Again and The Kite Runner [Master's thesis: Namibia University of Science and Technology].en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.nust.na:8080/jspui/handle/10628/897
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNamibia University of Science and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectNamibiaen_US
dc.subjectresilience theoretical frameworken_US
dc.subjecttraumaen_US
dc.subjectchild rapeen_US
dc.subjectsilenceen_US
dc.titleExploring silences among child victims of rape in The Sun Will Rise Again and The Kite Runneren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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