Over the Lip of the World

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Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths

• Over The Lip Of The World: Among The Storytellers Of Madagascar available on January 08 2016 from Indigo for 29.98
  
• Over the Lip of the World available on July 20 2015 from Buy for 21.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780295981154 ξ2 registered July 21 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780295981154 ξ3 registered July 20 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780295981154 ξ1 registered July 03 2012
  
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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.McElroy’s tale of an African American woman’s travels among the people of Madagascar is told with wit, insight, and humor. Throughout it she interweaves English translations of Malagasy stories of heroism and morality, royalty and commoners, love and revenge, and the magic of tricksters and shapechangers.

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