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Malagasy Literature
The literature of Madagascar encompasses the oral and written literary arts of the Malagasy people. Oral literary traditions A wide range of oral literary traditions have developed in Madagascar. One of the island's foremost artistic traditions is its oratory, as expressed in the forms of ''hainteny'' (poetry), ''kabary'' (public discourse) and ''ohabolana'' (proverbs). An epic poem exemplifying these traditions, the ''Ibonia'', has been handed down over the centuries in several different forms across the island, and offers insight into the diverse mythologies and beliefs of traditional Malagasy communities. In addition to these artistic traditions, oral histories were passed down across generations. Many stories, poems and histories were retold in musical form. The concept of poetry in traditional Malagasy oral literary traditions is inseparable from song, as demonstrated by the Malagasy words for "poem" - ''tononkira'' and ''tononkalo'' - which are formed by combining ''tonony' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malagasy People
The Malagasy (french: Malgache) are an Austronesian-speaking African ethnic group native to the island country of Madagascar. Traditionally, the population have been divided by subgroups (tribes or ethnicities). Examples include "Highlander" (ethnically Austronesian/Malay-Indonesian with less Bantu ancestry) groups such as the Merina and Betsileo of the central highlands around Antananarivo, Alaotra ''(Ambatondrazaka)'' and Fianarantsoa, and the "coastal dwellers" (ethnically Bantu with less Austronesian ancestry) with tribes like the Sakalava, Bara, Vezo, Betsimisaraka, Mahafaly, etc. The Merina are also further divided into two subgroups. The “Merina A” are the Hova and Andriana, and have an average of 30–40% Bantu ancestry. The second subgroup is the “Merina B”, the Andevo, who have an average of 40-50% Bantu ancestry. They make up less than 1/3 of Merina society. The Malagasy population was 2,242,000 in the first census in 1900. Their population experienced a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Rakotoson
Michèle Rakotoson (born 1948) is a writer, journalist, and Film Maker from Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa .... Her novels include ''Dadabé''. Since 1983, she has lived mainly in France. Works *''Dadabe: et autres nouvelles'' (1984) *''Le bain des reliques: roman malgache'' (1988) *''La Maison morte'' (''The Dead House'') (play, 1991)Thérèse Migraine-George – African women and representation: from performance to politics 2008 "In her play, La Maison morte (The Dead House) (1991), the Madagascan writer Michele Rakotoson describes the end of the reign of a President-Dictator, Randriambe. Both his wife and daughter criticize him for his violent and deadly actions" *''Elle, au printemps: roman'' (1996) *''Henoÿ – Fragments en écorce'' (1998) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ny Avana Ramanantoanina
Ny Avana Ramanantoanina (1891–1940) is among the most celebrated literary artists of Madagascar. He is principally renowned for his poetry, but also wrote stories and plays. He wrote during the French Madagascar, colonial period and is considered to have been the first Malagasy writer to weave political messages into his work. He wrote primarily in the Malagasy language. A contemporary of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, who is commonly cited as the first African poet to write according to Western conventions, Ramanantoanina was highly critical of the French colonial authority. He was a member of the secret nationalist organization Vy Vato Sakelika, and was exiled to Mayotte in the Comoros when the organization was banned by the French colonial authority in 1917. His writings were consequently banned and were not reprinted until the 1980s in Madagascar. As a result, his writings are relatively less well known in international literary circles than those of Rabearivelo. Ramanantoanina w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Rakotoson
Michele (), is an Italian male given name, akin to the English male name Michael. Michele (pronounced ), is also an English female given name that is derived from the French Michèle. It is a variant spelling of the more common (and identically pronounced) name Michelle. It can also be a surname. Both are ultimately derived from the Latin biblical archangel Michael, original Hebrew name מיכאל, meaning " Who is like God?". Men with the given name Michele *Michele (singer) (born 1944), Italian pop singer * Michele Abruzzo (1904–1996), Italian actor *Michele Alboreto (1956–2001), Italian Grand Prix racing driver *Michele Amari (1806–1889), Italian politician and historian *Michele Andreolo (1912–1981), Italian footballer *Michele Bianchi (1883–1930), Italian journalist and revolutionary *Michele Bravi (born 1994), Italian singer *Michele Cachia (1760–1839), Maltese architect and military engineer *Michele Canini (born 1985), Italian footballer * Michele Dell'Orco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regis Rajemisa-Raolison
Regis or Régis may refer to: People * Regis (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Regis (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Regis (musician), full name Karl O'Connor, an English electronic music and techno DJ * Régis (footballer, born 1965), full name Reginaldo Paes Leme Ferreira, Brazilian football goalkeeper * Régis (footballer, born 1976), full name Régis Amarante Lima de Quadros, Brazilian football manager and former centre-back * Régis (footballer, born June 1989), full name Régis Ribeiro de Souza, Brazilian football right-back * Régis (footballer, born November 1989), full name Régis dos Santos Silva, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Régis (footballer, born 1992), full name Régis Augusto Salmazzo, Brazilian football attacking midfielder * Régis (footballer, born 1998), full name Régis Tosatti Giacomin, Brazilian football forward Education * Regis College (Massachusetts) (town of Weston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Arisoa Rafenomanjato
Charlotte-Arrisoa Rafenomanjato (1936 – 4 November 2008) was a Malagasy writer mainly writing in French. Life and career The daughter of a doctor, she trained as a midwife and pediatric nurse. She lived in Antananarivo. Her writing included two collections of poetry and several short stories which were not published. Rafenomanjato served as honorary president of the Indian Ocean Writers Society. She died at the nuns' clinic in Ankadifotsy from pulmonary complications. Selected works Source: Plays * ''Le prix de la Paix'', received the Radio France Internationale prize in 1986, adapted for film and presented at the Festival of African Films in Montreal in 1988 * ''La Pécheresse'', received the Radio France International prize in 1987 * ''Le Prince de l'Etang'', translated into Italian and presented at the Festival of African Theatre in Italy, also presented at the in 1988 * ''L'Oiseau de Proie'', presented at the French Madagascan Literature in Antananarivo in 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond William Rabemananjara
Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Raginmund'') or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Reginmund''). ''Ragin'' (Gothic) and ''regin'' (Old German) meant "counsel". The Old High German ''mund'' originally meant "hand", but came to mean "protection". This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin. Alternatively, the name can also be derived from Germanic Hraidmund, the first element being ''Hraid'', possibly meaning "fame" (compare ''Hrod'', found in names such as Robert, Roderick, Rudolph, Roland, Rodney and Roger) and ''mund'' meaning "protector". Despite the German and French origins of the English name, some of its early uses in English documents appear in Latinized form. As a surname, its first recorded appearance in Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Rabemanajara
Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over one hundred identified noble families related to the surname by the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Origins The origin of this surname ultimately originates from the Latin, Jacobus which belongs to an unknown progenitor. Jacobus comes from the Hebrew name, Yaakov, which translates as "one who follows" or "to follow after". Ancient history A French knight returning from the Crusades in the Holy Lands probably adopted the surname from "Saint Jacques" (or "James the Greater"). James the Greater was one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles, and is believed to be the first martyred apostle. Being endowed with this surname was an honor at the time and it is likely that the Church allowed it because of acts during the Crusades. Indeed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March 1901 or 1903 – 22 June 1937), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Part of the first generation raised under French colonization, Rabearivelo grew up impoverished and failed to complete secondary education. His passion for French literature and traditional Malagasy poetry (''ohabolana'') prompted him to read extensively and educate himself on a variety of subjects, including the French language and its poetic and prose traditions. He published his first poems as an adolescent in local literary reviews, soon obtaining employment at a publishing house where he worked as a proofreader and editor of its literary journals. He published numerous poetry anthologies in French and Malagasy as well as literary critiques, an opera, and two novels. Rabearivelo's early period of modernist-inspired poetry showed skill and attract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hajasoa Vololona Picard-Ravololonirina
Hajasoa Vololona Picard Ravololo (born 1956) is a Malagasy-born French academic, politician and writer. Since acquiring French nationality in 1982, she has held a number of cultural and political posts in La Réunion. Her writings include essays, fictional works and poetry. Biography Born on 17 April 1956 in Antananarivo, Madagascar, she is the daughter of Malagasy parents who fought for independence in the late 1950s. After passing the baccalauréat in 1973, she earned the Diplôme d'études universitaires générales and a degree in modern literature, leading to a doctorate in linguistics at the Paris-Sorbonne University in 1981. Thereafter she received the CAPES teaching degree in literature from the Réunion Academy. In the early 1980s, she lectured at the University of Antananarivo before moving to Réunion to teach at the University of La Réunion. There she became involved in politics, first as secretary of the Socialist Party, then at the ministry of sport and culture. Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Nirina
Esther Nirina (née Ranirinaharitafika, 1932–2004), was a Malagasy poet. Born in 1932 in Madagascar, she lived in Orléans, France from 1953 to 1983, working as a librarian, before returning to Madagascar and establishing herself as a poet. During her career, Nirina was a member of the Académie Malagache, and head of the Society of the Writers of the Indian Ocean (SEROI). Her volume of poetry ''Simple voyelle'' was awarded the ADELF Grand Prix Littérature de Madagascar. Life Nirina was an only child, and she has said in interviews that her name means "desired one" because her parents wanted a child so badly. She was raised in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, where her father worked as a civil servant, but her family often visited the village in the country where her father was raised. Nirina moved to France in 1953, following her husband, who completed his studies in teaching there. While in Orléans, she began working as a librarian. She worked alongside Hélène ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jaomanoro
David Jaomanoro (December 30, 1953 – December 7, 2014) was a Malagasy writer, playwright and poet. Personal life Jaomanoro wrote poems until he attended university. He was a teacher in Antsiranana for ten years and then studied at the University of Antananarivo. He received a Master's Degree in Comparative Traditional Malagasy Literature from the University of Limoges in France. In 1988, he started teaching French in Antsiranana. His works have been translated into English and Dutch. Death Jaomanoro died on December 7, 2014, in Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loc ... at the age of 60. Works Novels * 1987 – ''Quatram's j'aime ça'' * 1988 - ''Le dernier caïman'' Novellas * 1992 – ''Funérailles d'un cochon et 13 autres novelles'', Éditions S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
