Portrayal of women in SiSwati drama
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2001
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This study looks at the portrayal of women in siSwati drama. The main aim is to reveal how women are portrayed in siSwati drama. In real life women are usually portrayed negatively. This is due to cultural directives that reveal woman as inferior beings. This affects our young children who read books and perceive women as useless. A child reads and has the idea that a woman is unfaithful, useless, a pretender, and dependant and has no job opportunities. If a child is a boy he grows with a negative connotation that a woman has no power. This affects our young girls because they do not develop confidence. There is a belief that the place of a woman is at home where she is expected to do all the household jobs. Our culture too, perceives women as inferior, forgetting that there are women who are single and those who are breadwinners who maintain their homes.
This study looks at the presentation of women characters in different siSwati drama books. It reveals the impact of Western culture and African culture to women. It is found that patriarch dominates over women. It also looks at the views of different people about the portrayal of women in siSwati culture.
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Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in the Department of African Languages in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2001.
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Women and literature, Siswati drama--20th century--History and criticism