Selfish gifts
Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses
by Lisa McNee
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses
2000, State University of New York Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-191) and index.
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