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Empathy and rage : female genital mutilation in African literature / editors, Tobe Levin and Augustine H. Asaah.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Banbury : Ayebia Clarke ; Accra, Ghana : Co-published with the Centre for Intellectual Renewal ; Boulder, CO : Distributed outside Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom exclusively by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009Description: xxi, 217 p. ill. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780955507946
  • 0955507944
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 892
Contents:
Assaults on female genitalia : activists, authors and the arts / Tobe Levin -- Empathizers -- From women's rite to human rights issue : literary explorations of Female Genital Excision since Facing Mount Kenya (1938) / Elisabeth Bekers -- Oppositional approaches to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in African literature / Stephen Bishop -- Going home again : diaspora, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and kingship in Warrior Marks / Tameka L. Cage -- 'Mother' as a verb : the erotic, Audre Lorde and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez -- Enraged -- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) : ambivalence, indictment and commitment in Sub-Saharan African fiction / Augustine H. Asaah -- The Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) novel in public education : an example from Ghana / Anne V. Adams -- What's wrong with Mariam? Gloria Naylor's infibulated jew / Tobe Levin -- Somali womanhood : a re-visioning / Marianne Sarkis -- Engaged -- Excision and African literature : an activist annotated bibliographical excursion / Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana -- Who's afraid of female sexuality? / Muthoni Mathai -- Tränen im Sand / Desert Tears (Excerpts) / Nura Abdi and Leo G. Linder
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assaults on female genitalia : activists, authors and the arts / Tobe Levin -- Empathizers -- From women's rite to human rights issue : literary explorations of Female Genital Excision since Facing Mount Kenya (1938) / Elisabeth Bekers -- Oppositional approaches to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in African literature / Stephen Bishop -- Going home again : diaspora, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and kingship in Warrior Marks / Tameka L. Cage -- 'Mother' as a verb : the erotic, Audre Lorde and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez -- Enraged -- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) : ambivalence, indictment and commitment in Sub-Saharan African fiction / Augustine H. Asaah -- The Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) novel in public education : an example from Ghana / Anne V. Adams -- What's wrong with Mariam? Gloria Naylor's infibulated jew / Tobe Levin -- Somali womanhood : a re-visioning / Marianne Sarkis -- Engaged -- Excision and African literature : an activist annotated bibliographical excursion / Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana -- Who's afraid of female sexuality? / Muthoni Mathai -- Tränen im Sand / Desert Tears (Excerpts) / Nura Abdi and Leo G. Linder