 | Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts Subjects: African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Female circumcision in literature; African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Female circumcision -- Africa; Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century; Literat; The study shows, in chronological fashion, how African women writers in the past five decades have introduced a new, autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision, bringing nuance and vitality to the FGM debate. Chantal Zabus is Professor of Comparative and Postcolonial Studies at the Université Paris 13, France. She is the author of Tempests after Shakespeare (2002) and The African Palimpsest (1991, 2006) |
