Femicide reflections in some selected literary Sesoto texts

Abstract

ABSTRACT The study is about femicide reflections in some selected Sesotho literary texts. The main focus is to unpack how issues of femicide are mirrored in the selected literary texts and how such images of femicide in literature paint a picture that communicates back to society. On top of that, the study discusses the moral lessons that come as a result of images of femicide in the selected texts. To achieve the intended aim, the study is divided into five chapters. The chapter is an introduction and it contains the background and contextualisation of the study, the problem that prompted the carrying out of the study, the main question, its subsidiary questions, and their hypotheses. The significance of the study, the scope of the study, and the review of related literature are also part of this chapter. On top of that, the chapter contains the theoretical framework that guides the research, the methodology section, and lastly the organization of the study. Chapter two is the synopses of the selected texts and reflections of non-physical femicide. The first section deals with the synopses and the second section with the reflections of non-physical femicide in the selected texts. The discussions of non-physical femicide are categorised to make it easier for the reader to follow. Chapter three is the analysis of physical femicide as reflected in the selected texts. To make it easier to reflect the forms and the nature of physical femicide the chapter is divided into subsections that help to unpack issues of physical femicide in the selected texts. Chapter four focuses on the reflections of moral lessons from both the non-physical and physical femicide discussions. That is, the chapter shows the moral lessons that the reflections of issues of femicide as discussed in chapters one andtwo could bring to society. The last chapter is chapter five which gives the conclusions and recommendations.