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Excising the spirit : a literary analysis of female circumcision
Verfasst von:
Strong-Leek, Linda
Trenton, NJ [u. a.]:
Africa World Press
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2009
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245 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Strong-Leek, Linda |
| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Maße: | 22cm |
| ISBN: | 1592216757 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Excising the Spirit seeks to complicate the issue of female circumcision and analyze it from both within and outside the ritual community, by investigating not only Walkers text, but three other texts written much earlier than Walkers, Ngugi wa Thiongos The River Between and Flora Nwapas Efuru and her unpublished manuscript, The Lake Goddess. This analysis also includes the text, Do They Hear You When You Cry?, by Fauziya Kassinjda, who seems to step literally out of Alice Walkers novel into flesh and blood as a detainee of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Each of the texts offers a very specific insight into the complexity of the cultural, political, and social issues related to female circumcision, and how each of the novelists grapple with these complexities. | |
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