The Trickster Figure In American Literature
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The Trickster Figure In American Literature
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Author : Winifred Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-23
The Trickster Figure In American Literature written by Winifred Morgan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.
The Trickster Figure In American Literature
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Author : Winifred Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-23
The Trickster Figure In American Literature written by Winifred Morgan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.
Tricksterism In Turn Of The Century American Literature
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Author : Elizabeth Ammons
language : en
Publisher: Tufts University Press
Release Date : 1994
Tricksterism In Turn Of The Century American Literature written by Elizabeth Ammons and has been published by Tufts University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Trickster Figures In Louise Erdrich S Love Medicine
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Author : Jennifer Künkler
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2002-04-26
Trickster Figures In Louise Erdrich S Love Medicine written by Jennifer Künkler and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-26 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Institute for English Philology), course: Proseminar: Native American Literature, language: English, abstract: Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine reveals a lot about Chippewa(1) culture: it is a story of love and hate, of violence and peacefulness, of isolation and inclusion, interwoven with typical aspects of Chippewa cultural heritage and mythic elements. Within the space of her novel, she allows traditional Chippewa myths of transformation to meet, contradict and relativize each other.(2) One of the most important figures in Native American tradition is the so-called “Trickster” and it is particularly this individual Erdrich makes use of in Love Medicine in order to form her protagonists. Reading the novel as a variation of traditional Chippewa Trickster Tales, this paper makes an attempt to describe and analyze the trickster-ego in some of Erdrich’s characters. It will begin with a general description of the tricky Nanabozho in Chippewa oral tradition and then continue with connecting typical traits of the legendary trickster with persons in Erdrich’s fiction. The major emphasis is placed on Gerry Nanapush, Lulu Lamartine and Lipsha Morrissey although several other characters do certainly show typical aspects of a trickster as well, such as June, Old Man Nanapush, Sister Leopolda, Marie, Moses etc. [...] _____ 1 There are three principal designations for the Chippewa: Anishinaabeg, Ojibwa and Chippewa. Vizenor reveals that Chippewa and Ojibwa are contemporary labels used by white Americans to designate these peoples, whereas they refer themselves as Anishinaabe: Gerald Vizenor, The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984) 13-14. For this study I have selected Chippewa because Erdrich prefers this variation. 2 cf. Joni Adamson Clarke, “Why Bears Are Good to Think and Theory Doesn’t Have to Be Murder: Transformation and Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks,” Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 4.1 (Spring 1992): 32.
Trickster Lives
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Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Trickster Lives written by Jeanne Campbell Reesman and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
At once criminal and savior, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Usually a figure both culturally specific and transcendent, trickster leads the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable. This book offers thirteen interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African America, Native America, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers, as well as an examination of trickster politics. This collection conveys the trickster's imprint on the modern world.
American Trickster
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Author : Emily Zobel Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-06-18
American Trickster written by Emily Zobel Marshall and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines the cultural significance of the North American trickster figure Brer Rabbit.
Forms And Functions Of The Trickster Figure In Thomas King S Green Grass Running Water
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Author : Aleksandra Pendarovska
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2004-08-06
Forms And Functions Of The Trickster Figure In Thomas King S Green Grass Running Water written by Aleksandra Pendarovska and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), University of Cologne (English Seminar), language: English, abstract: Thomas King ́s novel Green Grass, Running Water distinguishes itself from most of the modern novels, above all, from the novels written by Native American authors, in its genuine form and content. Not only the synthesis of oral and written form of narrating stories makes it a valuable literary work that reveals evidence for the existence of a relatively, if not utterly unknown culture, but also the author ́s effort to depict characters and stories from the mythology of the Native Americans contribute to it. The central figure among the mythological figures from the Native American culture in the novel Green Grass, Running Water is, by all means, the figure of Coyote. A lot of research has been conducted on the importance of this figure in the Native American mythology, on its meaning in Thomas King ́s novel and on the combination of these two aspects. It could be regarded that Thomas King attempts through his characters to illustrate on a larger scale the relationship between two diverse entities and their unequal position in it. This argument has been considered to a large extent by many authors and academics, among which Herb Wyile presents the following point in his article “ ′Trust Tonto′ Thomas King ́s subversive fictions and the politics of cultural literacy. “Given these various elements, it might be tempting initially to describe his work as blending Western literary forms with forms from Native cultures. A more appropriate characterization, however, can be found in Kimberley Blaeser’s description of the trickster figure in Native writing as ‘[n]ot a composite, which is made up of distinct and recognizable parts, but a complex, which is one unit whose makeup is intricate and interwoven’ (“Trickster” 51). Her description applies nicely to King’s writing, since in those Native cultures (and King’s writing as an extension of them), that blending or syncretism is already there, because of the cross-fertilization historically and currently between different tribal traditions and because of the legacy of the history of colonialism, during which cultural interaction was imposed.”1 In the light of the opinion presented in the above written quotation this paper will concentrate on the analysis of the meaning and form of the pivotal figure in Thomas King’s novel Green Grass, Running Water – the trickster figure of Coyote and attempt to discover the intertwined intertextuality in the dialogs, in which Coyote takes part.
Mythical Trickster Figures
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Author : William J. Hynes
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 1993-01-30
Mythical Trickster Figures written by William J. Hynes and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-30 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Mythical Trickster Figures, is the first substantial collection of essays about the trickster to appear since Radin's 1955 The Trickster. Contributions by leading scholars treat a wide range of manifestations of this mischievous character, ranging from the Coyote of the American Southwest to such African figures as Eshu-Elegba and Ananse, the Japanese Susa-no-o, the Greek Hermes, Christian adaptations of Saint Peter, and examples found in contemporary American fiction and drama. The many humorous trickster stories included are fascinating in themselves, but Hynes and Doty also highlight the wide range of features of the trickster--the figure whose comic appearance often signifies that the most serious cultural values are being both challenged and enforced. William J. Hynes is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Mary's College of California. William G. Doty is Professor of Religious Studies at The University of Alabama and the author of Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals also published by The University of Alabama Press.
Dancing On The Color Line
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Author : Gretchen Martin
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2015-12-09
Dancing On The Color Line written by Gretchen Martin and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding white authors adopting black aesthetic techniques have been largely overlooked. Gretchen Martin examines representative nineteenth-century works to explore the influence of black-authored (or narrated) works on well-known white-authored texts, particularly the impact of black oral culture evident by subversive trickster figures in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Joel Chandler Harris's short stories, as well as Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson. As Martin indicates, such white authors show themselves to be savvy observers of the many trickster traditions and indeed a wide range of texts suggest stylistic and aesthetic influences representative of the artistry, subversive wisdom, and subtle humor in these black figures of ridicule, resistance, and repudiation. The black characters created by these white authors are often dismissed as little more than limited, demeaning stereotypes of the minstrel tradition, yet by teasing out important distinctions between the wisdom and humor signified by trickery rather than minstrelsy, Martin probes an overlooked aspect of the nineteenth-century American literary canon and reveals the extensive influence of black aesthetics on some of the most highly regarded work by white American authors.
Coyote
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1999
Coyote written by and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Coyote insists the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in diaster.