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Between rites and rights : excision in women's experiential texts and human contexts

Title
Between rites and rights : excision in women's experiential texts and human contexts / Chantal Zabus.
Author
Zabus, Chantal J.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

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xiv, 324 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • African literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Female circumcision in literature
  • African literature > History and criticism
  • Female circumcision > Africa
  • Women and literature > Africa > History > 20th century
  • Literature, Experimental > Africa > History and criticism
  • Women in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-314) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. The cult of culture -- 1. Sexual pre-texts -- 2. Kenyan reactance : Kenyatta, Huxley, wa Thiong'o -- 3. Kenyan women's texts : Njau, Likimani, Waciuma -- Pt. 2. Speaking from memory : religion and remembrance -- 4. In passing and other circumspections : Nwapa, El Saadawi, Rifaat -- 5. On spurious geneses : Nawal El Saadawi -- 6. Spoken autobiographical acts : Nayra Atiya's Khul-Khaal -- Pt. 3. From sealing to opening up : sex, exile, and empowerment -- 7. The sealed condition : from the beginnings to Freud and Herzi -- 8. Silence, exile, and the spectacle of the fashioned body : Amari, Barry, Dirie -- 9. The whole woman and the law : Keita, Ahmadu, Kassindja, Dirie, Khady, Abdi, Korn -- 10. The exciser -- Conclusion : between rights and future rites.
ISBN
  • 9780804756877 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804756872 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007018573
OCLC
  • 124538563
  • SCSB-5364305
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries