Abstract
The way in which HIV/AIDS has been represented and written about is enmeshed in the various economic, political, social and cultural issues that surround the disease. HIV/AIDS raises important questions regarding sexuality. As a result, most writers on the disease are interested in interrogating the socio-cultural and sexual ideologies that put both men and women at risk of infection while at the same time attempting to debunk different myths that surround HIV/AIDS and sexuality in their societies. Discourses on sexuality and HIV/AIDS are complex and therefore create a challenge to a writer who wishes to represent this set of ideas. The writer has to navigate a field of contradictory tugs and tensions. This essay discusses how Confessions of an AIDS victim by Carolyne Adalla (1993) attempts to deal with this set of contradictions through the trope of confession.
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