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.
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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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Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples in literature.
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Added Author |
Reesman, Jeanne Campbell.
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ISBN |
0820322776 paperback alkaline paper |
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0820322148 alkaline paper |
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