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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495879103321

Autore

Smith Jeanne Rosier <1966->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1997]

ISBN

0-585-16216-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 196 pages)

Disciplina

813/.5409352

Soggetti

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Narration (Rhetoric)

Tricksters in literature

American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

American prose literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Literature and folklore - United States - History - 20th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Minority women in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.