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Empathy and rage: female genital mutilation in African literature/ Female genital mutilation in African literature. editors, Tobe Levin and Augustine H. Asaah. - oxfordshire: ayebia Clarke publishing, 2009. - xxi, 217 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defiance of pain 1 / Scene from life, female circumcision / Assaults on female genitalia: activists, authors and the arts / From women's rite to human rights Issue: literary explorations of female genital excision since facing Mount Kenya (1938) / Oppositional approaches to female genital mutilation (FGM) in African literature / Going home again: diaspora, female genital mutilation (FGM) and kingship in warrior marks / 'Mother' as a verb: the erotic, Audre Lorde and female genital mutilation (FGM) / Female genital mutilation (FGM): ambivalence, indictment and commitment in Sub-Saharan African fiction / The anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) novel in public education: an example from Ghana / What's wrong with Mariam? Gloria Naylor's infibulated Jew / Godfrey Williams-Okorodus -- Chris Leche -- Tobe Levin -- Elisabeth Bekers ; Stephen Bishop ; Tameka L. Cage ; Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez -- Augustine H. Asaah ; Anne V. Adams ; Tobe Levin ; Empathizers. Enraged.

ISBN: 0955507944 9780955507946

LCCN: 2016479436

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA963586 bnb GBA963586 dnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015283554 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African literature--History and criticism.
Female circumcision in literature.
Female circumcision--Africa.
African literature--History and criticism.
Female circumcision--Africa.
Female circumcision in literature.
African literature.
Female circumcision.
Female circumcision in literature.
Beschneidung (Frau, Motiv)
Literatur.
Afrikansk litteratur--historia.
Kvinnlig könsstympning i litteraturen.
Kvinnlig könsstympning--Afrika.
Literatur.
Beschneidung

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa.
Afrika.
Afrika.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: MALPL8010 / EMP 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 892