| Description |
xxxi, 222 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212) and index. |
| Contents |
Native American tricksters : literary figuras of community transformers / William G. Doty -- Kamapua'a : a Hawaiian trickster / Nancy Alpert Mower -- Brer Rabbit and his Cherokee cousin : moving beyond appropriation / Sandra K. Baringer -- Deadpan trickster : the American humor of Huckleberry Finn / Sacvan Bercovitch -- Trickster God in Roughing it / Lawrence I. Berkove -- John, Brer Rabbit, and Babo : the trickster and cultural power in Melville and Joel Chandler Harris / R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. -- Tricksters and Shamans in Jack London's short stories / Gail Jones -- Daring the free fall : Sula as Lilith / Debbie Lopez -- Trickster metaphysics of Thylias Moss / Jay Winston -- "Stop making sense" : trickster variations in the fiction of Louise Erdrich / Claudia Gutwirth -- Turning tricks : trafficking in the figure of the Latino / Maria De Guzman -- Where are the women tricksters? / Lewis Hyde -- Constitutional allegory and affirmative action babies : Stephen Carter's talk of "dissent" / Houston A. Baker Jr. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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Tricksters in literature.
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Indians in literature.
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Myth in literature.
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| Added Author |
Reesman, Jeanne Campbell.
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| ISBN |
0820322776 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0820322148 (alk. paper) |
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