Narrating Gendered Violence, the Absent Mother and (Dis)location in Secrets No More by Goretti Kyomuhendo

Abstract

This paper focuses on the analysis of  one of Uganda's women writers, Goretti Kyomuhendo's  novel, Secrets No More, with a view to bring out the issues of gender identity as thematically depicted in the work. In this work the author draws on her personal and national biographies to illustrate the inter-connected and interplaying relationships of historical and cultural backgrounds and how these have systematically impacted on the female character. My method is close reading and descriptive analysis of a purposively sampled novel by a post Idi Amin era Ugandan female writer. The argument is anchored on both postcolonial and feminist literary theories.