Between rites and rights : excision in women's experiential texts and human contexts / [electronic resource]
Zabus, Chantal J.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2007.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-314) and index.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
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African literature
Female circumcision in literature.
African literature
Female circumcision
Women and literature
Literature, Experimental
Women in literature.
African literature
Female circumcision in literature
African literature
Female circumcision
Women and literature
Literature, Experimental
Women in literature
Languages & Literatures
African Languages & Literatures