Excising the spirit
Subtitle: a literary analysis of female circumcision
By: Linda Strong-Leek.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Nwapa, Flora, -- 1931-; Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, -- 1938-; Kassindja, Fauziya, -- 1977-; Walker, Alice, -- 1944-; African literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Female circumcision in literature; Initiation rites in literature; Female circumcision -- Social aspects -- Africa; Female circumcision -- Political aspects -- Africa
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Clitorized history: a cultural and sociopolitical place of female circumcision; title: Reading as a womanist: Flora Nwapa, clitoridectomy, and the quest for spiritual solace; title: The gikuyu and the missionaries: sin, prejudice, and tradition in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The river between; title: Alice Walker and Fauziya Kassindja: contradictory viewpoints.