{"product_id":"writing-tricksters-mythic-gambols-in-american-ethnic-fiction-paperback","title":"Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeanne Rosier Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Tricksters\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant. Smith shows us how to bridge and link authors into an understanding of contemporary American literature that occupies shared ground, yet she insists on the imperative of educating ourselves in many U.S. traditions. The result is a book that meets the extremely difficult challenge of working multiculturally without either erasing or overdetermining difference. This discussion will have applications well beyond the group of authors discussed here.--Elizabeth Ammons, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Transcultural and thoroughly documented, this study of contemporary ethnic texts by women is comparative in the most scholarly sense. No reader of modern American fiction could argue against its trickster premises: \u003ci\u003ethe power to laugh at old worlds, and invent new ones.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--Kenneth Lincoln, author of \u003ci\u003eIndi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Communicates keen insights on fictional techniques and cultural themes in clear, elegant and jargon-free language. I believe that this study will serve as an excellent model for future multicultural literary criticism.\"--Bonnie TuSmith, author of \u003ci\u003eAll My Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Highly accessible to a diverse audience, \u003ci\u003eWriting Tricksters\u003c\/i\u003e forces readers to examine the power of storytelling traditions to cultural and individual survival. Smith's cross-cultural discussion of the trickster is right on the cusp of an important, evolving analytical direction.\"--Alanna Kathleen Brown, Montana State University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Few scholars have attempted to find the lines of contact and connection between ethnic writers. \u003ci\u003eWriting Tricksters\u003c\/i\u003e is fresh and original, an important addition to the growing corpus of truly multicultural critical texts.\"--Joseph Skerrett, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMemory, Narrative, and Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeanne Rosier Smith\u003c\/b\u003e teaches American Literature at Seton Hall University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703434113331,"sku":"9780520323384","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TmdjK3d0ZFpyOTJqQ3VyNFdkc3d3QT09.webp?v=1763323219","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/writing-tricksters-mythic-gambols-in-american-ethnic-fiction-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}