Subtextuality of Narrative in the Faction of Uche Nnyagu's Dear Mother

Abstract

This paper rationalizes the existential naivety of the infantile innocence, which was influencedby the external social construct of being like thers. The author is unaware of himself, therefore,he mirrors himself through the lens of his immediate tenor. The narrative structure of DearMother reenacts the events of the affective involvement of the participants and processes,through the lexical expressions which invoke nostalgic semiotics of the author’s experience. Theconceptualised use of language in the text represents experience in language which wascharacterized by lexical consciousness. Language is used here as an object of thought and worldview/ideology. Ideational metafunction serves as the model used in this paper to extrapolate,through the textual analysis, the writer’s “undefiled†philosophy installed in his brain, whichcontinued to expand on a vast scale, until it gave rise to the creation of Dear Mother: whichunconsciously represents the writer autobiographically against his initial and extrinsic intent, thatis, his mother’s biography. It is about encoding experiential meanings that involve the materialworld, the experience and value-system. The text- in all -foregrounds the author’s formativeinexperience which is a function of immediate and wider tenor.