Rising Anthills African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960-2000

Name: Rising Anthills African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960-2000
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ISBN: 9780299234942

ISBN-10: 0299234940

ISBN-13: 9780299234942

Edition: 2010

Authors: Elisabeth Bekers

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Female genital excision, or the ritual of cutting the external genitals of girls and women, is undoubtedly one of the most heavily and widely debated cultural traditions of our time. By looking at how writers of African descent have presented the practice in their literary work, Elisabeth Bekers shows how the debate on female genital excision evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, and human rights. Rising Anthills(the title refers to a Dogon myth) analyzes work in English, French, and Arabic by African and African American writers, both women and men, from different parts of the…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 8/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Analyzed Works


Introduction: Writing Women's Rites and Rights


Dissecting Anthills of Insurrection


Traditional Discourses of Female Genital Excision


Colonial and Anticolonial Discourses of Female Genital Excision


Feminist and Human Rights Discourses of Female Genital Excision


Postcolonial Discourses of Female Genital Excision


Three Literary "Generations" Writing on Female Genital Excision



Denunciations of Colonization and Hesitant Feminist Criticism in Early Literary "Circumscriptions" of Female Genital Excision (1963-1974)


Excised Women's Bodies as Pamphlets of Ethnicity in the Kenyan Struggle for Independence (Ngugi, Waciuma, and Likimani)


Two Exceptional Women's Alternative Gender Scripts (Nwapa and Njau)


The First Generation: Cultural Ambassadors, Cautious Critics



Growing Feminist Disenchantment in Literary Explorations of Female Genital Excision around the UN Decade for Women (1968-1988)


Immobile Women's Moving Narratives (Kourouma, Farah, El Saadawi, and Maï¿½ga Ka)


Captive/ating Women Warriors (Farah, El Saadawi, Beyala, and Rifaat)


The Second Generation: Resistance against National and Gender Oppression



The Globalization of the Literary Debate on Female Genital Excision at the Close of the Twentieth Century (1982-1998)


African American Fictionalizations of a "Culturally Challenging" Practice (Walker, Naylor, and Clarke and Dickerson)


Cultural Complications in Fiction by Other Women of African Descent (Accad, Herzi, and Keï¿½ta)


The Third Generation: Affinities across the Diaspora ... and through Time


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index