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Excising the spirit : a literary analysis of female circumcision / Linda Strong-Leek.
Van Pelt Library PR9340.5 .S79 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strong-Leek, Linda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- Female genital mutilation in literature.
- Initiation rites in literature.
- Female genital mutilation--Social aspects--Africa.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Female genital mutilation--Political aspects--Africa.
- Nwapa, Flora, 1931-1993. Efuru.
- Nwapa, Flora.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- River between.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
- Kassindja, Fauziya, 1977- Do they hear you when you cry.
- Kassindja, Fauziya.
- Walker, Alice, 1944- Possessing the secret of joy.
- Walker, Alice.
- Female genital mutilation--Social aspects.
- African literature (English)--Women authors.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Clitorized history: a cultural and sociopolitical place of female circumcision
- Reading as a womanist: Flora Nwapa, clitoridectomy, and the quest for spiritual solace
- The Gikuyu and the missionaries: sin, "prejudice", and tradition in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The river between
- Alice Walker and Fauziya Kassindja: contradictory viewpoints
- Conclusion: Excision
- contextualization, rationalization, Western implications, eradications, and literary configurations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592216749
- 9781592216741
- 1592216757
- 9781592216758
- OCLC:
- 277086230
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