Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2007. / Adviser: Gregg Lambert. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stockholm University, 2006. / Distributed in print by Almqvist & Wiksell International, Sweden. Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-212).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2007. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

This thesis entitled “a critical analysis of the portrayal of women in some selected Xhosa dramas”, endeavours to examine the effect of gender inequality. Women who are iv submissive toward some cultural aspects. It endeavours to give a critical analysis of women’s self assertion in some selected Xhosa dramas. According to the findings in this study, in African tradition women like to enforce patriarchy upon younger women. Older women feel that they have the duty of passing on cultural practices from generation to generation. Everything from manner of dress, posture, appropriate seating positions, eating patterns, performance of household chores, sexual expression, and voice tone and infection, self-esteem and self-concept, flows from the gender one is assigned at birth. From birth then, women and men are set on different physically based psychological paths. Of all the obstacles that limit the advancement of women, those touching upon knowledge and values are the most difficult to remove. When a woman lacks the independent capacity to assert her own positive truths and values, she is unable to contribute her insights and experiences to the various fields of human knowledge. When denied opportunities for higher forms of self expression, women may out of frustration attack the modes of understanding upheld by men. In this study theories such as black criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism and African womanism are relevant for discussing the portrayal of women. The descriptive method of research has been applied. Both observation and participation have been used for exposing barriers that block the development of women. This study will enable literature students and researchers to view culture in a broader perspective. It will enable them to consider conventions which determine the way human experience is presented in literature. Chapter one provides literature students and the researchers with a broad overview about how to develop an introductory perspective. Chapter two aims at developing a theoretical framework which serves as the basis of this study. Chapter three examines the effect of gender inequality. It opens an area of extensive examination that differentiates sexual practice from the sexual roles assigned to women and men. Chapter four examines women who are submissive or radical in some cultural aspects. Chapter five discusses women’s self assertion. Chapter six concludes this study.

Orientador: José Alves de Freitas Neto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T03:34:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juz_BrenodeSouza_M.pdf: 1163692 bytes, checksum: 6c0b8fbf38ea1c317a16fc9a53be04d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: No final dos anos 1990 e início do século XXI, o cinema argentino viveu uma vigorosa retomada na produção nacional com o surgimento de novos realizadores, conquistando diversos prêmios em festivais e ampla repercussão internacional. Este cinema atraiu o interesse da crítica e do público devido a uma série de fatores, entre os quais cabe destacar uma exemplar e instigante renovação da linguagem. A isso se soma a viabilização de produção independente calcada no baixo orçamento. A retomada da produção vivida pelo cinema argentino na virada de século XXI foi simultânea à crise social, econômica e institucional ocorrida a partir de dezembro de 2001. Este fato potencializou as significações do nuevo cine argentino devido à capacidade de diálogo que certas obras apresentaram em relação ao momento histórico vivido pelo país. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar, a partir de obras referenciais, as representações da Argentina no cinema argentino contemporâneo, investigando quais as estruturas narrativas e estilos cinematográficos foram utilizados na construção dessas obras e da crise por elas representadas. Busca-se também perceber os sujeitos, tramas, relações com os espaços e instituições escolhidos no constructo da Argentina contemporânea e sua crise. Com isso, é possível analisar a historicidade dessa cinematografia, e os desdobramentos implicados nas representações construídas pela escrita cinematográfica / Abstract: In the late 1990s and early twenty-first century, the Argentine cinema has experienced a vigorous recovery in its national production in which there was the emergence of new filmmakers who won several awards at festivals and got a wide world repercussions and notoriety. This cinema has attracted the interest from critics and audiences for a variety of factors, among which we highlight an exemplary and exciting renewal of its language. In addition, the viability of independent production grounded on low costs. This resumption of production experienced by the Argentine cinema at the turn of the century was simultaneously a social, economic and institutional crisis occurred in December 2001. This fact has enhanced the meanings of Argentine nuevo cine because of the capacity of dialoguing that certain works presented in relation to the historical moment experienced by the country. Thus, this dissertation aims to analyze, using reference works, the representations of contemporary Argentine cinema in Argentina, investigating which narrative structures and cinematographic styles were used in the construction of these works and the crisis that they represent. The aim is also to understand the subjects, plots, spaces and relations with the institutions selected in the construct of contemporary Argentina and its crisis. Thus, it is possible to analyze the historicity of this cinema, and the ramifications involved in the representations constructed by cinematographic writing / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História