a616: Re: a607: Bouki, Ti Malice (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: E Vedrine <evedrine@hotmail.com>


"I was kicked in my behind and it landed me right here in this place; I'm
telling you the story I took from there."  (p. 41)


[Yo ban m yon ti kout pye nan dèyè epi m tonbe la a pou ba w istwa sa a...]

But most of Oral story tellers (in Haiti) would leave out this formula (from
my observation), though it appears in many written folktales (dealing with
Bouki and Malice) that have been published over the past forty years (e.g
publications by Jules FAINE [PHILOLOGIE CREOLE (1936)...], Suzanne
Comhaire-SYLVAIN...). In my *Ti istwa kreyòl: Short stories in Haitian
Creole* (1994, 115 p.), the formula never came to my mind at the end of each
of the 7 stories; it's probably sth. that has a tendency to disspear (among
the younger generation of story teller in Haiti)

E.W.VEDRINE -http://hometown.aol.com/ewvedrine/Dizan.htm


>From: LeGrace Benson <legrace@twcny.rr.com>
>
>Further notes on source of Bouki-TiMalice stories:
>  Jacques Roumain in Africanisms Haitiens, [Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie M.
>  Rodriguez, 1978] says that Bouki and Ti Malice stories are similar to
>  Bouki and Leuk stories from the "Cycle d' Araigne" of the forest people
>  of West Africa. ...The formula at the end of the Haitian stories is
>  highly similar to that at the end of stories told by the Bambara, "I was
>  kicked in my behind and it landed me right here in this place; I'm
>  telling you the story I took from there."  (p. 41)
>

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