Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960–2000

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Abdalla, Raqiya Haji Dualeh, 180 Abdi, Nura, 21, 103 Abdi Sheik-Abdi, 11, 93, 208n3 abortion, 7, 159 Abu-Lughod, Lila, viii Abwunza, Judith M., 145 Accad, Evelyne, 22, 100, 152, 200, 208n12, 209n21, 228n47; L’excisée, 103, 152, 155, 176 –82, 183, 186, 189, 192–95, 200–201, 204 –5n2,205 –6n5,207n7,217n3,224n4, 228nn48 –52, 229nn53 –54 Achebe, Chinua, 3 –4, 28, 51, 206n2; Anthills of the Savannah, 3, 206n2; A Man of the People, 77; No Longer at Ease, 51, 214n29 Adams, Anne, ix, 149 Africa(continent).Seefemalegenitalexcision— geographical spread of; and individual countries Africa(trope):Mother/Virgin,14;victim,21–22 African American literature, viii, 4, 152, 152–76, 193, 201–2, 209n20; authors of, 20, 24, 152, 156, 164, 170, 205n3, 223n3 (see also individual authors) African Literature Association (ALA), 22 African literatures, vii, viii, ix, 207; definition, 205n3; novels of disenchantment, 77, 78, 81,89,150,199;riseof,5,27–28,211–12n4; role in decolonization, 27–28, 73 –75; women’swriting,72,77–79,152,201,205 – 6n5.SeealsoAfricanAmericanliterature; literature: as sociocriticism; and individual authors “Against the Pleasure Principle.”See under Herzi, Saida Hagi-Dirie agency: narrative (see under literary strategies); practical, 13, 28, 135, 145 –46, 154, 161, 164, 168, 169, 172, 181, 186, 190, 194 –95, 201 Ahmadu, Fuambai, 10, 13, 208n11, 210n26 249 Index Ahmed, Leila, 18, 138, 209n19 Aidoo, Ama Ata, 7, 21, 77 AIDS, 153, 224n8 Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo, 162, 202, 210n25 Alcoff, Linda Martín, 225n13 Allas, Yasmine, 223n3 Amadiume, Ifi, 61, 64, 209n18 Aman, 210n26, 218n14 Amireh, Amal, 219n17 Amma (Dogon god of creation), 3, 12, 160–61. See also Dogon: creation story Amnesty International, 207n9 amputation, 7, 173; female genital excision as, 30, 106, 113, 127, 179, 219n24, 220n36, 229n54 analyzed works, list of, xi–xii ancient Egypt, 184, 206n3. See also mummies androgyny, 11, 219n24 Anthias, Floya, 9, 13 –15, 23 –24, 51, 80, 146, 218n7 anthill, 3 –4, 12, 156, 161, 206n2 Anthills of the Savannah (Achebe), 3, 206n2 Armah, Ayi Kwei, 77 Arrawelo (Somali queen), 11–12, 42, 93, 208n13 Asaah, Augustine H., 205 –6n5 Ashcroft, Bill, 6 Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), 22, 150 asylum, 172, 223n1. See also “excision refugees” Atiya, Nayra, 10, 12, 221n47 autobiography. See female genital excision— arts and media about: life writing Bâ, Mariama, 77, 108 Badran, Margot, 209n19, 222n58, 224n4 “Bahiyya’s Eyes.”See under Rifaat, Alifa Bal, Mieke, 212n6 Balsamo, Anne, 9 Bambara: language, 5, 207n8; people, 11, 208n11 Banyiwa-Horne, Naana, 62 Barker-Benfield, G. J., 210–11n28 Barnes, Virginia Lee, 210n26, 218n14 Barre, Siyad, 116 Barry, Kesso, 210n26 Barry, Mariama, 103, 223n3 Bashir, Layli Miller, 21, 223n1 Bass, Margaret, 154 –55, 163, 168, 185, 193 Bean, Annemarie, 210n25, 220n31, 227n42 Bena-Lulua (people), 11 Bennett, Paula, 227n34 Bernstein, Leonard, 212–13n15 Beta Israel, 164 –69, 226n32 Bettelheim, Bruno, 7, 9 Beyala, Calixthe, 76, 77–78, 209n21, 222n51; Tu t’appelleras Tanga, 78, 114 –16, 127–32, 132–50 passim, 157, 163, 165, 181, 194 – 95, 200, 205 –6n5, 221n50, 222nn51–55, 226n26, 228n52 Bildungsroman/Bildungsnarrative, 87, 90, 95 – 96, 114, 125 –26, 130, 136, 144 –48, 200, 218 –19n16, 220n34 “black Messiah,”41, 66, 213n20 Boddy, Janice, 210n26, 218n14 body, 219n20; bodily intactness, 33, 121, 125, 166, 184, 191; destruction of, 7, 18, 30, 40, 79, 80–89 passim, 98 –105 passim, 112, 118, 120, 124 –27, 128 –29, 133 –36, 139, 143, 149, 154, 156, 162–63, 166, 173, 177, 178, 217n3, 227– 28n43; gender, 6 –7, 8 –13 passim, 29, 56, 57, 61, 80, 82, 95, 100, 104, 105, 117–18, 124, 125, 128, 143, 168, 177, 187 (see also female genital excision—and construction of gender); revitalization, 90, 95, 127, 136, 163, 177; as site of conflict, 7, 14, 22, 46, 52–54, 118 –19, 208n15; as site of sociocultural inscription, 6 –9, 14, 32, 46, 56 –57, 74, 79, 126, 128, 197, 202, 208n15 Boehmer, Elleke, 7, 63 Borgomano, Madeleine, 147 Boyce Davies, Carole, ix, 64, 77 Brahimi, Denise, 163 bride price, 37, 62, 91, 110, 116, 117, 123, 205 –6n5, 220n33 Brière, Éloïse A., 222n51 Brown, Lloyd W., 14, 72 Bruner, Charlotte H., 17, 43, 112, 217n1 Buckman, Alyson R., 153, 163 Burkina Faso, 10 Busia, Abena P. A., 136, 147 Butler, Judith, 6 Camacho, Martine, 186, 229n63 Cameroon, 76, 127, 200 cannibalism, 7, 15 Carr, Dara, 204 –5n2 castration: male, 11, 12, 93, 208n13, 209n16...