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- catalog abstract "Writing Tricksters examines the remarkable resurgence of tricksters - ubiquitous shape-shifters who dwell on borders, at crossroads, and between worlds - on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicting a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America's most successful and important women writers are writing tricksters. Taking up works by Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison, Jeanne Rosier Smith accessibly weaves together current critical discourses on marginality, ethnicity, feminism, and folklore, illuminating a "trickster aesthetic" central to non-Western storytelling traditions and powerfully informing American literature today. Publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b10196045.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Writing Tricksters examines the remarkable resurgence of tricksters - ubiquitous shape-shifters who dwell on borders, at crossroads, and between worlds - on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicting a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America's most successful and important women writers are writing tricksters. Taking up works by Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison, Jeanne Rosier Smith accessibly weaves together current critical discourses on marginality, ethnicity, feminism, and folklore, illuminating a "trickster aesthetic" central to non-Western storytelling traditions and powerfully informing American literature today. Publisher's description.".
- catalog extent "xv, 196 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0520206541 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520206568 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.5409352 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature Minority authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Erdrich, Louise Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic groups in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ethnicity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Kingston, Maxine Hong Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman warrior.".
- catalog subject "Literature and folklore United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Minority women in literature.".
- catalog subject "Morrison, Toni Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PS374.T7 S45 1997".
- catalog subject "Tricksters in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Writing tricksters : mythic gambols in American ethnic literature / Jeanne Rosier Smith.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".