Verbal Arts in Madagascar: Performance in Historical PerspectiveA history of the encounter between Europeans and the colonized people with a groundbreaking analysis of four types of Malagasy folklore: riddles, proverbs, hainteny (dialogic exchanges of traditional metaphors), and oratory. |
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... poetry must have acquired that assumption from his or her culture . No one , up to now , has known both poetries well enough to compare them . Both literatures are equally available for criticism , that is , a general interpreta- tion ...
... poetry must have acquired that assumption from his or her culture . No one , up to now , has known both poetries well enough to compare them . Both literatures are equally available for criticism , that is , a general interpreta- tion ...
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... poetry , proverbs , and oratory along with riddling . Whereas American riddles , in McDowell's presentation , are a set of “ enactments based on interrogation , " these Mala- gasy genres are performances based on " solicitation , " the ...
... poetry , proverbs , and oratory along with riddling . Whereas American riddles , in McDowell's presentation , are a set of “ enactments based on interrogation , " these Mala- gasy genres are performances based on " solicitation , " the ...
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... meant " ( v ) . That capacity for imitation and echoing is a principal stylistic feature in Malagasy oral poetry . Jully also bore witness to the impossibility of the standard which the missionary Malagasy Lore and Folk 19.
... meant " ( v ) . That capacity for imitation and echoing is a principal stylistic feature in Malagasy oral poetry . Jully also bore witness to the impossibility of the standard which the missionary Malagasy Lore and Folk 19.
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Contents
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Question and Answer | 34 |
Dialogue in Monologue | 63 |
The Merina Hainteny | 98 |
Petition and Delivery | 152 |
Living and Dead | 191 |
Notes | 215 |
Sources Consulted | 219 |
Index | 239 |
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African allusion ancestors Andrianampoinimerina answer Antananarivo Antemoro artistic language audience authoritative Bakhtin Beaujard Betsileo Betsimisaraka Bloch called Callet cattle Chapus collected contest creolization Dahle Dahle's Dandouau dead Decary deliverer dialect dialogue discourse Domenichini-Ramiaramanana Dundes European fanorona Ferrand fixed phrases Flavien Ranaivo folklorists folktales formal French funeral gasy genre Grandidier hainteny hearer hianao highland Houlder interaction izaho izany izay Jean Paulhan kabary kely king language linguistic Madagascar Malagasy culture Malagasy folklore Malagasy language Malagasy proverbs Malagasy Tale Index Malgache marriage marriage debate means Merina metaphor missionaries Mondain monologic mpikabary ohabolana olona oral oration oratory Paulhan performance person petitioner player poems poetic poetry proverbs question quotation quoted raha rano Rasamuel riddle riddler safidy Sakalava says Sibree situation social speaker speaking speech structure style stylized symbolic tahaka texts topic-comment tradition trans translated tsiny tsy mba Turn two-sided verbal art wife woman words