Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.
Contents
Trickster aesthetic : a cross-cultural feminist theory -- Monkey business : Maxine Hong Kingston's transformational trickster texts -- Monkey mothers and other paradoxes : the woman warrior -- Trickster history : China men -- Monkey and his community : Tripmaster Monkey -- Monkey business : revisionist mythmaking -- Tripmaster Kingston : the author as trickster -- Comic liberators and word-healers : the interwoven trickster narratives of Louise Erdrich -- Trickster identity : Love Medicine and Tracks -- Lonely tricksters : the Beet Queen -- Evolving community, evolving novels : the trickster's communal voices -- Chance and design : the Bingo Palace -- Tar and feathers : community and the outcast in Toni Morrison's trickster novels -- Trickster as iconoclast : Sula -- Communal trickster : Song of Solomon -- Tricksters in conflict : Tar Baby -- "Pure trickster poetics" : Morrison's narrative structure -- Conclusion.
