Stories of HIV and AIDS Written by Grassroots Women in Africa

该项目分析了非洲草根妇女作为非洲艾滋病毒和艾滋病社会运动的一部分所写的文本，并考察了她们如何理解自己感染艾滋病毒的情况，以及她们如何通过写作改变自己和周围的人。首先，就活动家和记者写的她们的生活故事而言，叙述者和作者之间的差距往往使她们的声音无法被听到。非虚构小说的创造性使作者可以根据叙事创作故事，这被证明是一种有效的表现方式。第二，在基层妇女自己写的生活故事方面，母亲为孩子写下自己的历史、家庭背景和孩子的故事的记忆书被证明是支持家庭感染艾滋病毒生存的有效工具。

The project analyzed the texts which African grassroots women write as a part of social movement of HIV and AIDS in Africa, and examined how they understand their living with HIV and how they transform themselves and people around them through writing.First, in terms of their life stories written by activists and journalists, the gap between the narrator and the writer often precludes their voices from being heard. The creative non-fiction, which allows the writer to create a story based on the narrative, proved to be an effective way of representation. Second, in terms of the life stories written by the grassroots women themselves, the memory book, in which a mother writes for her child her history, the family background, and the stories of the child, proved to be an effective tool to support the family to survive with HIV.