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- catalog abstract ""Offering Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses as an original contribution to the critical debate about identity and self-representation, Lisa McNee asks how Senegalese women represent themselves, rather than asking who has the right to represent them. Selfish Gifts describes and analyzes the public spaces for verbal self-representation that the Wolof form of panegyric (taasu) and written autobiographies offer to women. In contrasting performances of taasu to autobiographical works written in French, McNee addresses important issues in literary criticism, folklore studies, and anthropology, and develops a theory of an African aesthetic of self-representation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11988524.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Offering Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses as an original contribution to the critical debate about identity and self-representation, Lisa McNee asks how Senegalese women represent themselves, rather than asking who has the right to represent them. Selfish Gifts describes and analyzes the public spaces for verbal self-representation that the Wolof form of panegyric (taasu) and written autobiographies offer to women. In contrasting performances of taasu to autobiographical works written in French, McNee addresses important issues in literary criticism, folklore studies, and anthropology, and develops a theory of an African aesthetic of self-representation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Autobiographical subjects -- The gift of praise -- Panegyrics -- Genre and gender in the autobiographical exchange -- The politics of praise -- Aborted nations -- terms of exchange -- Selfish gifts.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-191) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 197 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791445879 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791445887 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "Senegal".
- catalog spatial "Senegal.".
- catalog subject "896/.3214 21".
- catalog subject "Autobiography in literature.".
- catalog subject "PL8785.5 .M35 2000".
- catalog subject "Wolof literature Senegal History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Wolof literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Senegal.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Autobiographical subjects -- The gift of praise -- Panegyrics -- Genre and gender in the autobiographical exchange -- The politics of praise -- Aborted nations -- terms of exchange -- Selfish gifts.".
- catalog title "Selfish gifts : Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses / Lisa McNee.".
- catalog type "text".