Introduction: Liminal personalities and ploys of tricksterism -- Zora Neal Hurston and the hamartiology of the trickster in "Sweat" -- Alice Walker: tricking through conjuring in "The revenge of Hannah Kumhuff" -- Recnceptualizing the archetypal trickster in Audre Lorde's mythobiography Zami, a new spelling of my name -- Carnivalizing race: the trick of the grotesque in Toni Morrrison's "Recitatif" -- Conclusion: Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain: subverting hegemonic discourses.
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