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Selfish gifts : Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses / Lisa McNee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585300380
  • 9780585300382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selfish gifts.DDC classification:
  • 896/.3214 21
LOC classification:
  • PL8785.5 .M35 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-191) and index.

"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.

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.

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