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.
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