[Free e-book] Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction

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Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction

by Jeanne Smith

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7199p0zh/



Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One— The Trickster Aesthetic: A Cross-Cultural Feminist Theory

Chapter Two— Monkey Business: Maxine Hong Kingston's Transformational Trickster Texts

Chapter Three— Comic Liberators and Word-Healers: The Interwoven Trickster Narratives of Louise Erdrich

Chapter Four— Tar and Feathers: Community and the Outcast in Toni Morrison's Trickster Novels

Chapter Five— Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited



Suggested citation:

Smith, Jeanne Rosier. Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7199p0zh/



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