Title Between rites and rights : excision in women's experiential texts and human contexts / Chantal Zabus

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) Contents pt. 1. The cult of culture. Sexual pre-texts ; Kenyan reactance: Kenyatta, Huxley, wa Thiong'o ; Kenyan women's texts: Njau, Likimani, Waciuma -- pt. 2. Speaking from memory: religion and remembrance. In passing and other circumspections: Nwapa, El Saadawi, Rifaat ; On spurious geneses: Nawal El Saadawi ; Spoken autobiographical acts: Nayra Atiya's Khul-Khaal -- pt. 3. From sealing to opening up: sex, exile, and empowerment. The sealed condition: from the beginnings to Freud and Herzi ; Silence, exile, and the spectacle of the fashioned body: Aman, Barry, Dirie ; The whole woman and the law: Keita, Ahmadu, Kassindja, Dirie, Khady, Abdi, Korn ; The Exciser ; Conclusion: Between rights and future rites Summary Modern African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision that brings nuance to the female genital mutilation debate. Spanning pharaonic times through classical antiquity to the onset of the 21st century, this study shows how this experiential body of literature - encompassing English, Arabic, and French - goes far beyond such traditional topics as universalism and cultural relativism, by locating the female body as a site of liminality between European and African factions, subject and agent; consent and dissent; custom and human rights Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Female genital mutilation in literature African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Female genital mutilation -- Africa Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century Literature, Experimental -- Africa -- History and criticism Women in literature. African literature -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. African literature African literature -- Women authors Female circumcision Female genital mutilation in literature Literature, Experimental Women and literature Women in literature Experimentelle Literatur Beschneidung Frau Languages & Literatures. African Languages & Literatures. Africa Afrika Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007018573 ISBN 9780804768375 0804768374

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