Carte Between Rites and Rights Chantal Zabus

Between Rites and Rights

Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts

Autor: Chantal Zabus
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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496.44 lei
In the past five decades and over three generations, African women writers have introduced a new aut...

Informații despre carte

Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2007
Pagini
344
EAN
9780804756877
ISBN
0804756872
Enbook ID
04718317
Greutate
603
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 25

Descriere completă

In the past five decades and over three generations, African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision that brings nuance to the Female Genital Mutilation debate. Spanning pharaonic times through classical antiquity to the onset of the twenty-first century, this unprecedented study shows how this experiential body of literature - encompassing English, Arabic, and French - goes far beyond such traditional topics as universalism and cultural relativism, by locating the female body as a site of liminality between European and African factions, subject and agent; consent and dissent; custom and human rights. While showing the limits of autobiography, "Between Rites and Rights" boldly interweaves Freudian hysteria, the surgical age, the world of high fashion, male circumcision's "fearful symmetry," and Western body modification.

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