Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts

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Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Translation and Transliteration Introduction PART ONE THE CULT OF CULTURE 1. Sexual Pre-Texts 2. Kenyan Reactance: Kenyatta, Huxley, wa Thiong'o 3. Kenyan Women's Texts: Njau, Likimani, Waciuma PART TWO SPEAKING FROM MEMORY: RELIGION AND REMEMBRANCE 4. In Passing and Other Circumspections: Nwapa, El Saadawi, Rifaat 5. On Spurious Geneses: Nawal El Saadawi 6. Spoken Autobiographical Acts: Nayra Atiya's Khul-Khaal PART THREE FROM SEALING TO OPENING UP: SEX, EXILE, AND EMPOWERMENT 7. The Sealed Condition: From the Beginnings to Freud and Herzi 8. Silence, Exile, and the Spectacle of the Fashioned Body: Aman, Barry, Dirie 9. The Whole Woman and the Law: Keita, Ahmadu, Kassindja, Dirie, Khady, Abdi, Korn 10. The Exciser Conclusion: Between Rights and Future Rites Notes Select Bibliography Index

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