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“Writing Rites Gone Wrong: Autobiography, Testimonials, and Their Relevance to the Debate Around Genital Alterations,” in Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice, eds. George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010).
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“The Afrosporic Migration of Genital Alterations to the New Europe: Women’s Bodies, Trauma, the law, and the Internet,” in Diasporatic Subjectivity and Cultural brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures, ed. Igor Maver (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, U.K.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009), pp. 113-132.
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“Why Not the Earlobe? » in Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision, ed. Chantal ZABUS, Matatu, Special Issue (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. i-xxxii.
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“Beyond Circumspection: African, Jewish, and Muslim Autobiographies Around Circumcision,” in Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision, ed. Chantal ZABUS, Matatu, Special Issue (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 99-128.
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“Out in Africa: Queer Desire in Some Anthropological and Literary Texts,” Comparative Critical Studies, The University of Edinburgh Press, 6:2 (2009), pp. 251-270.
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"Against the Straightgeist : Queer Artists, 'Shakespeare's England,' and 'Today's London'," in Etudes anglaises; Genre(s) 3, (2008): 279-290.
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"Matière africaine et théorie queer: une interpénetration nécessaire," in Stratégies queer : Ecritures de la différence, ed. Pierre Zoberman (Paris: L' Harmattan, 2008), pp. 259-277.
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"Of Female Husbands and Boarding School Girls," Research in African Literatures, Special Issue on the Nigerian Novel, ed. Chris Dunton, 38: 2 (2008), ed. Chris Dunton and Pius Adensanmi, 39:2 (Summer 2008), 93-107.
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also in a modified version in The Contact and the Culmination : Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek, eds. Marc Delrez & Bénédicte Ledent (Liège : L3, 1997), 365-379.
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also in a modified version in Criss-Crossing Boundaries in African Literature, eds. C. Zimra, J. Ngate, K. Harrow (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1991), 181-194.
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also in a modified version in Semper Aliquid Novi : Littérature Comparée et Littérature d'Afrique (Mélanges offerts à Albert Gérard), eds. Janos Riesz & Alain Ricard (Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990), 305-317.
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