Over the Lip of the World

"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.

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.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Editions

5

Pages

250

ISBN

9780295981154

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