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Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction
Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction
Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction
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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.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 15, 2023
ISBN9780520323391
Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction
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Jeanne Rosier Smith

Jeanne Rosier Smith teaches American Literature at Seton Hall University.

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