Trickster lives : culture and myth in American fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Reesman, Jeanne Campbell
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2001]
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. Tricksters in literature. Indians in literature. Myth in literature.

Table of Contents:

Native American tricksters: literary figuras of community transformers / William G. Doty
Kamapua'a: a Hawaiian trickster / Nancy Alpert Mower
Brer Rabbit and his Cherokee cousin: moving beyond appropriation / Sandra K. Baringer
Deadpan trickster: the American humor of Huckleberry Finn / Sacvan Bercovitch
The trickster God in Roughing it / Lawrence I. Berkove
John, Brer Rabbit, and Babo: the trickster and cultural power in Melville an Joel Chandler Harris / R. Bruce Bickley, Jr.
Tricksters and Shamans in Jack London's short stories / Gail Jones
Daring the free fall: Sula as Lilith / Debbie López
The trickster metaphysics of Thylias Moss / Jay Winston
"Stop making sense": trickster variations in the fiction of Louise Erdrich / Claudia Gutwirth
Turning tricks: trafficking in the figure of the Latino / María De Guzmán
Where are the women tricksters? / Lewis Hyde
Constitutional allegory and affirmative action babies: Stephen Carter's talk of "dissent" / Houston A. Baker Jr.