Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American FictionJeanne Campbell Reesman University of Georgia Press, 2001 M01 1 - 222 páginas At once criminal and savior, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. As Margaret Atwood observed, trickster gods "stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands; they operate where things are joined together and, thus, can also fall apart." A shaping force in American literature, trickster has appeared in such characters as Huckleberry Finn, Rinehart, Sula, and Nanapush. Usually a figure both culturally specific and transcendent, trickster leads the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable. Trickster Lives offers thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African American, Native American, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers, as well as an examination of trickster politics. This innovative collection of work conveys the trickster’s unmistakable imprint on the modern world. |
Contenido
Literary Figuras | 1 |
A Hawaiian Trickster | 16 |
The American Humor of Huckleberry Finn | 53 |
The Trickster God in Roughing It | 84 |
The Trickster and Cultural Power | 97 |
Tricksters and Shamans in Jack Londons Short Stories | 110 |
The Trickster Metaphysics of Thylias Moss | 131 |
Trickster Variations in the Fiction | 148 |
Trafficking in the Figure of the Latino | 168 |
Where Are the Women Tricksters? | 185 |
Selected Bibliography | 209 |
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Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction Jeanne Campbell Reesman Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction Jeanne Campbell Reesman Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
affirmative action African American American Indian American Literature Angeles animal Babo Benito Cereno Brer Rabbit Brer Rabbit stories Cherokee Cherokee rabbit Chippewa City of Night comic context Coyote critics cultural deadpan dominant Doty Erdoes and Ortiz Erdrich's essay ethnicity female tricksters Fleur folklore funny Gerald Vizenor Hawai'i Hawaiian Hermes hero Huck Huck's Huckleberry Finn human humor Hynes Ibid interpretation Jack London Joel Chandler Harris joke Kamapua'a Kame'eleihiwa language Latino laugh Lewis Hyde Lilith Lipsha literary Mala Noche male means Melville Melville's Mexican Moss mythology Myths Nanabozho Nanapush narrative narrator Native American Native American trickster Negro novel play poem Radin readers role sense sexual shaman signifiers slave social spirit ster storytelling studies Sula Swann tale tells Thylias Moss tion tradition tribe trick trickster trickster figure trickster stories Uncle Remus University Press Wiget William Wolf women words Writing Tricksters York
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