Writing tricksters
Subtitle: mythic gambols in American ethnic literature
By: Jeanne Rosier Smith.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Criticism and interpretation.; Erdrich, Louise -- Criticism and interpretation.; Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.; Kingston, Maxine Hong.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Tricksters in literature.; American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Minority women in literature.; Ethnic groups in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: 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. Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.