Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
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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. 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.
Colleen J. McElroy
COLLEEN J. MCELROY, scrittrice e folclorista, è nata nel 1935 a St. Louis, Missouri. Ha conseguito la laurea magistrale alla Kansas State University e un dottorato di ricerca alla University of Washington. Attualmente vive a Seattle, Washington, dove ricopre la carica di professore emerito nella University of Washington. Caporedattore di the Seattle Review dal 1995 al 2006, McElroy ha pubblicato nove collezioni di poesie, tra le più recenti: Sleeping with the Moon (2007), per la quale ha ricevuto il PEN/Oakland National Literary Award nel 2008, e Here I Throw Down My Heart, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), finalista per il Binghampton University Milt Kessler Book Award, e vincitrice del Walt Whitman Award, il Phyllis Wheatley Award, e il Washington State Governor’s Book Award. La prossima collezione di poesie dal titolo Blood Memories verrà pubblicata dalla University of Pittsburgh Press nel 2016. Vincitrice del “Before Columbus American Book Award in poetry” nel1985 con Queen of the Ebony Isles, la scrittrice e poetessa ha anche ricevuto due Fulbright Fellowships, due NEA Fellowships, un Jesse Ball DuPont Distinguished Black Scholar Fellowship, e un Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Tra le collezioni di racconti brevi troviamo Jesus and Fat Tuesday (1988) per la quale la scrittrice ha ricevuto il “Washington State Governor’s Award for Excellence in Literature” nel 1988 e il “Washington State Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award” nel 2001. Alcuni dei racconti della raccolta sono stati inseriti in diverse antologie e “Sister Detroit” in particolare ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti individuali. Di recente numerosi dei suoi lavori sono apparsi anche in The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Best American Poetry, Black Renaissance Noire, The Best American Poetry 2001, torch, e online su http://www.poetryfoundation.org. Molte delle sue poesie sono state tradotte in russo, italiano, arabo, greco, francese, tedesco, malese e serbo-croato.
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