Catachresis in Côte d’Ivoire: Female Genital Power in Religious Ritual and Political Resistance
Ivoirian women vehemently protest the violence and calamity of civil war by deploying an embodied rhetoric of ritual, appealing to the traditional religious concept of “Female Genital Power.” I propose that their imagistic resistance to the postcolonial state represents a catachresis, with a few int...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2013]
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Religion & gender
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 188-206 |
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Resistance
B postcolonial (theory) B Religion B Ritual B Gender B Africa (women) |
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