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Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts BY CHANTAL ZABUS Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Pp, 2007. xviii + 324 pp. ISBN 10-0-8047-2 cloth.
Chantal Zabus is professor of comparative and postcolonial Studies at the university of paris 13, France. She is the author of two other important works, namely, Tempests after Shakespeare (2002) and The African Palimpsest (1991, reedited in 2006). in this one, she approaches the topic of female genital mutilations in an original manner not used previously by analysts of this issue that has been much written about in the last few years (see my review of elizabeth heger Boyle's Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community (Johns hopkins up, 2002) for h-gender-Mideast (2004) as an example, as well as the bibliographies provided by these two authors). She considers the new autobiographical discourse from African women writers over the past five decades and...