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Rising anthills / Elisabeth Bekers

Public ISBD Titre : Rising anthills : African and African American writing on female genital excision, 1960-2000 Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Elisabeth Bekers, Auteur Editeur : Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin press Année de publication : 2010 Collection : Women in Africa and the diaspora Importance : 1 vol. (XII-262 p.) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-299-23494-2 Note générale : Bibliogr. p. 231-248 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Afrique Amérique Littérature Mutilation sexuelle Index. décimale : M-4 Littérature Résumé : "Rising Anthills (the title refers to a Dogon myth) analyzes works in English, French, and Arabic by African and African American writers, both women and men, from different parts of the African continent and the diaspora. Attending closely to the nuances of language and the complexities of the issue, Bekers explores lesser-known writers side by side with such recognizable names as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Flora Nwapa, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahmadou Kourouma, Calixthe Beyala, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor. Following their literary discussions of female genital excision, she discerns a gradual evolution—from the 1960s, when writers mindful of its communal significance carefully "wrote around" the physical operation, through the 1970s and 1980s, when they began to speak out against the practice and their societies' gender politics, to the late 1990s, when they situated their denunciations of female genital excision in a much broader, international context of women's oppression and the struggle for women's rights. "(4ème de couverture) Rising anthills : African and African American writing on female genital excision, 1960-2000 [texte imprimé] / Elisabeth Bekers, Auteur . - Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin press, 2010 . - 1 vol. (XII-262 p.). - (Women in Africa and the diaspora) . ISBN : 978-0-299-23494-2 Bibliogr. p. 231-248 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Afrique Amérique Littérature Mutilation sexuelle Index. décimale : M-4 Littérature Résumé : "Rising Anthills (the title refers to a Dogon myth) analyzes works in English, French, and Arabic by African and African American writers, both women and men, from different parts of the African continent and the diaspora. Attending closely to the nuances of language and the complexities of the issue, Bekers explores lesser-known writers side by side with such recognizable names as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Flora Nwapa, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahmadou Kourouma, Calixthe Beyala, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor. Following their literary discussions of female genital excision, she discerns a gradual evolution—from the 1960s, when writers mindful of its communal significance carefully "wrote around" the physical operation, through the 1970s and 1980s, when they began to speak out against the practice and their societies' gender politics, to the late 1990s, when they situated their denunciations of female genital excision in a much broader, international context of women's oppression and the struggle for women's rights. "(4ème de couverture)

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