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- catalog abstract "An extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia during the 1950s and 1960s. Aman is an instantly recognizable story of a girl who struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. Aman gives a portrait of herself as fiercely devoted to her family and culture yet searching for a better life. By the time she is eight, she has undergone a ritual clitoridectomy. At eleven her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder. At thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger who attempts to deflower her with a knife. She runs away to the city, where her beauty and rebelliousness lead her to the rich, decadent demimonde of white colonialists. Unflinchingly honest in the telling of her story, Aman emerges as a woman capable of both generosity and selfishness, love and cruelty. Hers is an astonishing history, engagingly - and necessarily - concerned with the role of women in tribal societies, female circumcision, the vicissitudes of colonialism, and the quest for female self-awareness.".
- catalog contributor b6436899.
- catalog contributor b6436900.
- catalog coverage "Somalia Biography.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "An extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia during the 1950s and 1960s. Aman is an instantly recognizable story of a girl who struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. Aman gives a portrait of herself as fiercely devoted to her family and culture yet searching for a better life. By the time she is eight, she has undergone a ritual clitoridectomy. At eleven her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder. At thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger who attempts to deflower her with a knife. She runs away to the city, where her beauty and rebelliousness lead her to the rich, decadent demimonde of white colonialists. Unflinchingly honest in the telling of her story, Aman emerges as a woman capable of both generosity and selfishness, love and cruelty. Hers is an astonishing history, engagingly - and necessarily - concerned with the role of women in tribal societies, female circumcision, the vicissitudes of colonialism, and the quest for female self-awareness.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-349).".
- catalog extent "xiii, 349 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Aman.".
- catalog identifier "0679436065 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Aman.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "Aman.".
- catalog spatial "Somalia Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Somalia".
- catalog subject "967.7305/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Aman.".
- catalog subject "CT2208.A43 B37 1994".
- catalog subject "Girls Somalia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women Somalia Social conditions.".
- catalog title "Aman : the story of a Somali girl / as told to Virgina Lee Barnes and Janice Boddy.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".