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Article: Postmodern ethnography and the womanist mission: postcolonial sensibilities in 'Possessing the Secret of Joy.'
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Reading Possessing the Secret of Joy is a dual exercise in reading culture. First, the novel's actions focus on the cultural rite of female circumcision. Second, the creator of the fictional world within which the novel's African protagonist lives is an African American woman. Furthermore, the protagonist is an African recently emigrated to the United States with her black American husband. The last offers the "ideal" African American, embodying the culture of Africa and inhabiting the geographical space of the United States. Tashi's body serves as the stage upon which the opera of African American cultural/ethnic identity can be performed. Both African American women's ...
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