Title: Writing tricksters
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, History, American prose literature, Ethnic groups in literature, Ethnicity in literature, Women authors, Narration (Rhetoric), Women and literature, Minority women in literature, American fiction, Literature and folklore, Tricksters in literature, Minority authors, Languages & Literatures, Woman warrior (Kingston, Maxine Hong), American Literature, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, English, General, American fiction, women authors, American prose literature, history and criticism, Minorities in literature, Kingston, maxine hong, 1940-, Morrison, toni, 1931-2019
Places: United States
People: Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-), Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS374.T7 S45 1997