[PDF] Trickster Lives eBook

Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820322773

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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.

Author : Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher : august house
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874836691

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Contains nine short folktales about tricksters, featuring selections from Persia, India, Poland, France, and other places.

Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429930837

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In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

Author : Franchot Ballinger
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780806137964

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Native American tricksters can be buffoons, transformers, social critics, teachers, and mediators between human beings, nature, and the gods. A vibrant part of American Indian tradition, the trickster has shown a remarkable ability to adapt into the twenty-first century. In Living Sideways, Franchot Ballinger provides the first full-length study of the diverse roles and dimensions of North American Indian tricksters. While honoring their diversity and complexity, he challenges stereotypical Euro-American treatments of tricksters. Drawing from the most influential scholarship on Native American tricksters, Ballinger shows how many critics have failed to consider both the specifics of trickster stories and their cultural contexts. Each chapter concentrates on a particular aspect of the trickster theme, such as the trickster’s ambiguous personality, the variety of trickster roles, and the trickster’s role as social critic. Ballinger further considers issues of sex, gender, and humor, the use of trickster tales as instructions on social values and community control, and the trickster as an emblem of modern Indian survival. Living Sideways also includes illustrative trickster stories at the end of each chapter, a comprehensive bibliography, and discussion of the literary aspects of tricksters. Examining both the sacred power of tricksters and the stories as literature, Living Sideways is the most thorough book to date on Native American tricksters.

Author : Matt Houlbrook
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022613315X

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Cooling Out: Has the World Changed, or Have I Changed? -- Notes -- Index

Author : Terrie Waddell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317724038

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Wild/lives draws on myth, popular culture and analytical psychology to trace the machinations of 'trickster' in contemporary film and television. This archetypal energy traditionally gravitates toward liminal spaces – physical locations and shifting states of mind. By focusing on productions set in remote or isolated spaces, Terrie Waddell explores how key trickster-infused sites of transition reflect the psychological fragility of their willing and unwilling occupants. In differing ways, the selected texts – Deadwood, Grizzly Man, Lost, Solaris, The Biggest Loser, Amores Perros and Repulsion – all play with inner and outer marginality. As this study demonstrates, the dramatic potential of transition is not always geared toward resolution. Prolonging the anxiety of change is an increasingly popular option. Trickster moves within this wildness and instability to agitate a form of dialogue between conscious and unconscious processes. Waddell's imaginative interpretation of screen material and her original positioning of trickster will inspire students of media, cinema, gender and Jungian studies, as well as academics with an interest in the application of Post-Jungian ideas to screen culture.

Author : Jenny L. Davis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816542651

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"Trickster Academy is a full-length collection of poems that explore the experience of being Native in Academia-from land acknowledgment statements to the criteria for tenure and the histories of using Native American remains within Anthropology. Organized around the premise of the Trickster Academy, a university space run by and meant for training "tricksters," this collection moves between the personal dynamics of a two-spirit Indigenous woman in spaces where there are few others, and a "trickster's" critique of those same spaces. But these realities aren't specific only to those in academic positions-from leaving home, to being the only Indian in the room, to having to deal with the constant pressures to being a 'real Indian', they are shared experiences of Indians across many different regions, and all of us who live among tricksters"--

Author : Rosita K̲aaháni Worl
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2017-09
Category : Haida Indians
ISBN : 9781946019110

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Native Values: Living in Harmony explores the four core cultural values of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian of Southeast Alaska.This book is part of Baby Raven Reads, an award-winning Sealaska Heritage program for Alaska Native families with children up to age 5 that promotes language development and school readiness. Baby Raven Reads was awarded the Library of Congress's 2017 Literacy Awards Program Best Practice Honoree award.

Author : Molly Shannon
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781419700309

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Tilly loves to play pranks on everyone around her, but when her family decides to turn the tables Tilly needs to decide if she should change.

Author : Vicente L. Rafael
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1478022418

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In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, warlord, and traditional politician than he is with examining what Duterte does: how he rules, the rhetoric of his humor, his use of obscenity to stoke fear, and his projection of masculinity and misogyny. Locating Duterte's rise within the context of counterinsurgency, neoliberalism, and the history of electoral violence, while drawing on Foucault’s biopower and Mbembe’s necropolitics, Rafael outlines how Duterte weaponizes death to control life. By diagnosing the symptoms of the authoritarian imaginary as it circulates in the Philippines, Rafael provides a complex account of Duterte’s regime and the social conditions that allow him to enjoy continued support.