Tricksterism in Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature

by Ammons, Elizabeth; White-Parks, Annette

• ISBN13: 9780874516807
• ISBN10: 0874516803
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Tufts Univ

Table of Contents

Introduction
"We Wear the Mask": Sui Sin Far as One Example of Trickster Authorship	p. 1
Maria Cristina Mena: Turn-of-the-Century La Malinche, and Other Tales of Cultural (Re)Construction	p. 21
"A Second Tongue": The Trickster's Voice in the Works of Zitkala-Sa	p. 46
Manifest Dentistry, or Teaching Oral Narrative in McTeague and Old Man Coyote	p. 61
Goophering Around: Authority and the Trick of Storytelling in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman	p. 79
Reinventing Trickster: Creek Indian Alex Posey's Nom de Plume, Chinnubbie Harjo	p. 93
Cross-Dressing and Cross-Naming: Decoding Onoto Watanna	p. 106
Mourning Dove, Trickster Energy, and Assimilation-Period Native Texts	p. 126
Reading Trickster; or, Theoretical Reservations and a Seneca Tale	p. 137
Spies in the Enemy's House: Folk Characters as Tricksters in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy	p. 158
List of Contributors	p. 187
Index	p. 189
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