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How to read a folktale : the Ibonia epic from Madagascar /

"How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and due...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haring, Lee (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2013.
Colección:World oral literature series ; Volume 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword to Ibonia
  • Preface
  • 1.â€?Introduction: What Ibonia is and How to Read it
  • 2.â€?How to Read Ibonia: Folkloric Restatement
  • 3.â€?What it is: Texts, Plural
  • 4.â€?Texture and Structure: How it is Made
  • 5.â€?Context, History, Interpretation
  • 6. IBONAMASIBONIAMANORO He of the Clear and Captivating Glance
  • There Is No Child
  • Her Quest for Conception
  • The Locust Becomes a Baby
  • His Quest for a Birthplace
  • Yet Unnamed
  • Refusing Names from Princes
  • The Name for a Perfected Man
  • Power
  • Stone Man Shakes
  • He Refuses More NamesGames
  • He Arms Himself
  • He Is Tested
  • He Combats Beast and Man
  • He Refuses Other Wives
  • The Disguised Flayer
  • An Old Man Becomes Stone Manâ€?s Rival
  • Victory: “Dead, I Do Not Leave You on Earth; Living, I Give You to No Manâ€?
  • Return of the Royal Couple
  • Ibonia Prescribes Laws and Bids Farewell
  • Appendix: Versions and Variants
  • Works Cited
  • Index