Friday, June 18, 2004

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

Dear IRC Colleagus,

Maybe this e-book can be useful for American Corner or for IRC users.

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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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