Browsing by Author "Martins, Thabo Paul"

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    Analysis of character portrayal of female characters in selected Sesotho literacy texts by female authors
    (National University of Lesotho, 2007) Martins, Thabo Paul; Prof. Mokitimi, M. I. P.; Mr. Phafoli, L. S.
    The study makes a critical analysis of portrayal of female characters in selected Sesotho contemporary texts by women authors. The study’s main thrust is to show how contemporary Basotho women writers portray female characters. The study has five chapters. Chapter one is an introduction. It gives the problem that prompted the undertaking of this study, the purpose, research question and hypotheses, review of related literature, theoretical framework, and methodology, organisation of the thesis, study scope and significance. Chapter two makes a critical analysis of how girl characters are portrayed. Explanation of terms such as characterisation and character are also provided. The names of the selected girl characters are provided. A synopsis of each text is given before discussing the characters that are present in it. Chapter three focuses on analysis of character portrayal of women. The names of the selected characters and the titles of the novel and short story books in which they are found are given. The character traits that the women characters have are also provided and analysed accordingly. Chapter four makes a critique of how the selected Basotho women authors portray female characters. The chapter is divided such we deal with the female characters as portrayed by a single author. Chapter five gives the conclusion, research findings, remarks and recommendations.
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    The Communicative strategies, the significance, the content and the role of the performance of mangae a makoloane a basotho (basotho boy initiates’ music)
    (University of the Witwatersrand, 2020) Martins, Thabo Paul; Dr. Zungu, E. B.
    The study investigated the contemporary performance of mangae in order to find the communication strategies, the significance, the content and the role they perform. By rendition and style, the performance of mangae is considered as total theatre. Despite only a pure vocal performance of mangae, a consolidation of styles is blended to form a contemporary oral style of mangae. The union of styles during the performance of mangae reproduces a new trend of performance-within-performance during rendition. Traditional and modern theatrical actions are fused in, either concurrently or sporadically within the performance of the songs. The performance of mangae demonstrates a serious flexibility and turn-around by incorporating the resources from two different art spaces. In the process, it successfully strikes a balance between the two cultures; it does not totally shed off all the traditional artistic qualities while at the same time it does not fully and exclusively rely on modern-day resources. The balance that the performance of mangae strikes between the traditional and modern-day culture marks it as the popular culture of the Basotho. Thus, the contemporary performance of mangae uses popular discourse to place it within modern day popular culture of Basotho. It draws from the bank of traditional language as well as from the modern-day library and blend them to mark a contemporary art of the performance of mangae. This strength of the performance of mangae to fuse the two cultures together is important for the conservation, conformity and continuity of the culture. The topics that form the contemporary performance of mangae include industrialisation, modern politics, unemployment and social life of the contemporary Basotho. Obsolete as well as modern day terminology and expressions are used among other things to delineate the new self-identities, self-righteousness, masculine virility and heroic identities of the initiates. The performance of mangae invariably uses language, popular discourse and themes accessible both to youth and the old populace of the Basotho. It also relates to modern-day popular music, dances styles, christian liturgy and biblical stories, themes alluding to cognisance of the impact of modern-day and social media technologies to cite a few. The modern-day performance of mangae is the renowned cultural heritage of the Basotho upon which a combination of styles is presented during its presentation. Despite the complex of styles found among the Setšekha, Senotši/Sesotho and Sekaota style, the contemporary performance of mangae reproduces subjects and themes relating the social, economic, political, climatic and psychodynamic aspects of human life. It also alludes to some indigenous knowledge base of the Basotho, for example, the rain making and stopping capabilities. Thus, the performance of mangae serves as a repository of the worldview and thought of the society within which it is rendered.