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Title:

Trickster lives : culture and myth in American fiction / edited by Jeanne Campbell Reesman.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xxxi, 222 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.
Tricksters in literature.
Indians in literature.
Myth in literature.

Other Authors:

Reesman, Jeanne Campbell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780820322773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820322776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820322148 (alk. paper)
0820322148 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43913113

LCCN:

00030228

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)