Writing tricksters : mythic gambols in American ethnic literature
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- ISBN: 0520206541 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780520206540 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520206568 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780520206564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xv, 196 p. ; 22 cm. - Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Trickster aesthetic : a cross-cultural feminist theory -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | A digital reproduction is available to the public from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. |
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