Writing women's rites: Excision in experiential african literature |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Tulane University;2. Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture and Department of Anthropology, UCLA;3. Department of Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge;4. Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen''s University |
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Abstract: | This article examines “excision” (a.k.a. “female circumcision,” Female Genital Mutilation FGM] or, more recently, Female Genital Cutting FGC]) in African Women's first-person accounts. While considering the shift from female third-person narratives to “experiential” texts, the article also outlines three steps—(1) in-passing; (2) auto(-)biography; and (3) suturing—in delineating the herstory of the representation of excision in postcolonial African literature, which in turn, contributes to the general shift in the literary text from rite to mutilation so that women's rites now clash with human rights. |
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