03298oam 2200649I 450 991049587910332120230421041457.00-585-16216-6(OCoLC)ocm56798027(CKB)111057870449372(SSID)ssj0000275407(PQKBManifestationID)12105503(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275407(PQKBWorkID)10341124(PQKB)11355284(EXLCZ)9911105787044937220160829d1997 uy 0engurbn#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWriting tricksters mythic gambols in American ethnic literature /Jeanne Rosier SmithBerkeley :University of California Press,[1997]1 online resource (xv, 196 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-20656-8 0-520-20654-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismNarration (Rhetoric)Tricksters in literatureAmerican prose literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismLiterature and folkloreUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMinority women in literatureEthnic groups in literatureEthnicity in literatureAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Narration (Rhetoric)Tricksters in literature.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.American prose literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Literature and folkloreHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryMinority women in literature.Ethnic groups in literature.Ethnicity in literature.813/.5409352Smith Jeanne Rosier1966-1073488PQKBBOOK9910495879103321Writing tricksters2569618UNINA