How to Read a Folktale : The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar.

Contents -- 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 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 -- Works Cited -- Index.

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