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Author Smith, Jeanne Rosier, 1966-

Title Writing tricksters : mythic gambols in American ethnic literature / Jeanne Rosier Smith.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
©1997
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.5409 S651W    Check Shelf
Description xv, 196 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.
Contents ch. 1. Trickster aesthetic: a cross-cultural feminist theory -- ch. 2. 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 -- ch. 3. 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 -- ch. 4. 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 -- ch. 5. Conclusion.
Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Tricksters in literature.
American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Criticism and interpretation.
Erdrich, Louise -- Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman warrior.
Minority women in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
ISBN 0520206541 alkaline paper
0520206568 paperback alkaline paper
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