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(Paperback)
By: Paulla A. Ebron
ISBN: 9780691074894
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The jali - a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers - is a charismatic but contradictory figure. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation - the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction.
