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Title Trickster lives : culture and myth in American fiction / edited by Jeanne Campbell Reesman.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2001]
©2001

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.009 T823T    Check Shelf
Description xxxi, 222 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 -- The trickster God in Roughing it / Lawrence I. Berkove -- John, Brer Rabbit, and Babo: the trickster and cultural power in Melville an 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 López -- The 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 / María De Guzmán -- 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.
Tricksters in literature.
Indians in literature.
Myth in literature.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples in literature.
Added Author Reesman, Jeanne Campbell.
ISBN 0820322776 paperback alkaline paper
0820322148 alkaline paper
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