How to Read a Folktale: The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar (PDF)

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 duels, he...

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Main Author: Lee Haring
Format: Default Book
Published: 2013
Subjects:
anthropology
folklore
folktale
Ibonia
literary criticism
Madagascar
Malagasy people
World Oral Literature Projec
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25958512.v1
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