ISBN:
9781554581818
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (349 p)
Series Statement:
Indigenous Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Morra, Linda M Troubling Tricksters : Revisioning Critical Conversations
DDC:
398.2089/97
Keywords:
Folk literature, Indian ; North America ; History and criticism
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Indians of North America ; Folklore
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Indians of North America ; Social life and customs
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Tricksters ; North America
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Tricksters in literature
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- A PREFACE: RUMINATIONS ABOUT TROUBLING TRICKSTERS -- LOOKING BACK TO THE "TRICKSTER MOMENT" -- What's the Trouble with the Trickster?: An Introduction -- Trickster Reflections: Part I -- The Trickster Moment, Cultural Appropriation, and the Liberal Imagination in Canada -- The Anti-Trickster in the Work of Sheila Watson, Mordecai Richler, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz -- RAVEN -- Why Ravens Smile to Little Old Ladies as They Walk By …
Abstract:
Gasps, Snickers, Narrative Tricks, and Deceptive Dominant Ideologies: The Transformative Energies of Richard Van Camp's "Why Ravens Smile to Little Old Ladies as They Walk By …" and/in the Classroom -- A Conversation with Christopher Kientz -- Personal Totems -- RIGOUREAU, NAAPI, AND WESAKECAK -- Dances with Rigoureau -- Naapi in My World -- Sacred Stories in Comic Book Form: A Cree Reading of Darkness Calls -- COYOTE AND NANABUSH -- "Coyote Sees the Prime Minister" and "Coyote Goes to Toronto" -- Excerpt from Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit
Abstract:
(Re)Nationalizing Naanabozho: Anishinaabe Sacred Stories, Nationalist Literary Criticism, and Scholarly Responsibility -- Quincentennial Trickster Poetics: Lenore Keeshig-Tobias's "Trickster Beyond 1992: Our Relationship" (1992) and Annharte Baker's "Coyote Columbus Café" (1994) -- Trickster Reflections: Part II -- TELLING STORIES ACROSS LINES -- Processual Encounters of the Transformative Kind: Spiderwoman Theatre, Trickster, and the First Act of "Survivance" -- Diasporic Violences, Uneasy Friendships, and The Kappa Child
Abstract:
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation": History, Story, and the Cant of Authenticity -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX I: The Magazine to Re-establish the Trickster, Front Page -- APPENDIX II: Let's Be Our Own Tricksters, Eh -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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