Over the Lip of the World
Subtitle: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar (Samuel & Althea Stroum Books)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780295978246
Subjects: Folklore; Travel writing; Storytelling; Social Science; Sociology; Madagascar; Essays & Travelogues; Folklore & Mythology - Storytelling; Folklore & Mythology; Mythology, Malagasy; Oral tradition
First sentence: I arrived in Antananarivo, or Tana as the capital of Madagascar is called, in March 1993 at the end of the rainy season, an unhappy coincidence for someone like me coming from the rain forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Description: "Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of the World she depicts with equal verve the various storytelling traditions of the island and her own adventures in trying to find and record them."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout she interweaves English translations of Malagasy stories of heroism and morality, royalty and commoners, love and revenge, and the magic of tricksters and shapechangers."--BOOK JACKET.