Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185) and index.
Contents
'We wear the mask' : Sui Sin Far as one example of trickster authorship / Annette White-Parks -- Maria Cristina Mena : turn-of-the-century La Malinche, and other tales of cultural (re)construction / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- 'A second tongue' : the trickster's voice in the works of Zitkala-Sa / Jeanne Smith -- Manifest dentistry, or teaching oral narrative in 'McTeague' and Old Man Coyote / Eric Anderson -- Goophering around : authority and the trick of storytelling in Charles W. Chesnutt's 'The conjure woman' / Julia B Farwell -- Reinventing trickster : Creek indian Alex Posey's nom de plume, Chinnubbie Harjo / Alexia Kosmider -- Cross-dressing and cross-naming : decoding Onoto Watanna / Yuko Matsukawa -- Mourning Dove, trickster energy, and assimilation-period native texts / Alanna Kathleen Brown -- Reading trickster; or, theoretical reservations and a Seneca tale / Karen Oakes -- Spies in the enemy's house : folk characters as tricksters in Frances E. W. Harper's 'Iola Leroy' / Lynda Koolish
