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This dissertation is a hermeneutic reading of four novels by the Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma: Les Soleils des indépendances , Monnè, outrages et défis, En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, and Allah n'est pas obligé. The exegesis is based on the assumption that there is…

This thesis is a multi-sited investigation of the campaign against excision in urban Mali and of the responses to it. Fieldwork took place in 1997-1998 through feminist action-research with a local women's association that carried out programs against excision. Part I situates t…