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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2013.
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Collection: | World oral literature series ;
Volume 4. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Foreword to Ibonia
- Preface
- 1.�Introduction: What Ibonia is and How to Read it
- 2.�How to Read Ibonia: Folkloric Restatement
- 3.�What it is: Texts, Plural
- 4.�Texture and Structure: How it is Made
- 5.�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 Man�s Rival
- Victory: “Dead, I Do Not Leave You on Earth; Living, I Give You to No Man�
- Return of the Royal Couple
- Ibonia Prescribes Laws and Bids Farewell
- Appendix: Versions and Variants
- Works Cited
- Index