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urn:uuid:7b9b68c6-8bb6-42c5-8b19-bf5e56b7293e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:7b9b68c6-8bb6-42c5-8b19-bf5e56b7293e 15 9781909254084 06 10.11647/OBP.0034 00 EB E101 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 10 02 2054362X 01 02 World Oral Literature Series 01 01 How to Read a Folktale The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar 1 A01 Lee Haring 2 A23 21 0000-0002-2262-0986 Mark Turin 01 eng 00 163 03 B2 Folklore and Ethnology 04 GR357 20 Ibonia 12 JFHF 10 SOC002010 B2 Anthropology 12 JHMC 20 Madagascar 10 SOC011000 12 DC 20 folktale B2 Literature 20 Malagasy people B2 Other languages B2 African Studies 20 anthropology 20 folklore 20 literary criticism 20 World Oral Literature Projec 01 06 03 00 <p>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 and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the tale is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people were experiencing European contact for the first time, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Through Ibonia, Lee Haring expertly helps readers to understand the very nature of folktales. His definitive translation, originally published in 1994, has now been fully revised to emphasize its poetic qualities, while his new introduction and detailed notes give insight into the fascinating imagination and symbols of the Malagasy. Haring’s research connects this exotic narrative with fundamental questions not only of anthropology but also of literary criticism.</p> 04 00 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. Ibonia, He of the Clear and Captivating Glance There Is No Child Her Quest for Conception The Locust Becomes a Baby The Baby Chooses a Wife and Refuses Names His Quest for a Birthplace Yet Unnamed Refusing Names from Princes The Name for a Perfected Man Power Stone Man Shakes He Refuses More Names Games 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 Text 0, "Rasoanor”. Antandroy, 1650s. Translated from Étienne de Flacourt (1661) Text 2, "Ibonia”. Merina tale collected in 1875–1877. James Sibree Jr. (1884) Text 3, Merina tale collected in 1875–1877. Summary by John Richardson (1877) Text 6, "The king of the north and the king of the south”. Merina tale collected in 1907–1910 at Alasora, region of Antananarivo. Translated from Charles Renel, Charles (1910) Text 7, "Iafolavitra the adulterer”. Tanala tale collected in 1907–1910 in Ikongo region, Farafangana province. Translated from Charles Renel (1910) Text 8, "Soavololonapanga”. Bara tale, ca. 1934. Translated from Raymond Decary (1964) Text 9, "The childless couple”. Antankarana tale, collected in 1907–1910 at Manakana, Vohemar province. Translated from Charles Renel (1910) Text 14, "The story of Ravato-Rabonia”. Sakalava, 1970s. Translated from Suzanne Chazan-Gillig (1991) Works Cited Index 01 00 03 02 https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0034_frontcover.jpg Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20131008 02 WORLD 06 15 9781909254053 06 15 9781909254060 06 15 9781909254077 06 15 9781800644618 06 15 9781909254084 06 15 9781909254091 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0034.epub 20 02 20131008 02 7.99 USD WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0034 20 02 20131008 02 7.99 USD WORLD