TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNee,Lisa
TI  - Selfish gifts: Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses 
SN  - 0585300380
AV  - PL8785.5 .M35 2000eb
U1  - 896/.3214 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Wolof literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Senegal
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Autobiography in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-191) and index; 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
N2  - "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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