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Rüsse, Paul, and Anastassia Krasnova. "Pro-Social Trickstars in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns." Interlitteraria 24, no. 2 (January 15, 2020): 556–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2019.24.2.21.

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Tricksters are usually defined as non-heroic male characters obsessed with food, sex, and general merrymaking, occasionally changing shape and even gender but eventually returning to their masculine self. But is this necessarily true in contemporary ethnic literature? The current essay explores the notion of the trickstar, or the female trickster, in Afghan- American fiction, analysing the three heroines in Khaled Hosseini’s 2007 novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, which is a mother-daughter story set in Kabul at the turn of the millennium. In order to place this text into a cultural context and underscore the significance of the trickstar figure, it is compared to a traditional Afghan folk tale, “Women’s Tricks.” Two research questions are at the centre of this article: (1) In what ways are trickstars from Afghan folklore similar to the heroines of Hosseini’s novel? and (2) What roles do his heroines perform as pro-social trickstars?

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Kocot, Monika. "On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s "Ceremony" as Healing." Text Matters, no. 9 (December 30, 2019): 292–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.09.18.

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The article discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with a focus on textual manifestations of the figure of the trickster. The theme of shape-shifting and transformation that one usually associates with tricksters is linked here with the theme of (non)dualist timespace, the notion of interbeing, which in turn introduces the theme of trauma healing. The author combines two perspectives—Paula Gunn Allen’s view on timespace in her The Sacred Hoop, and Gerald Vizenor’s writings concerning trickster aesthetics—in order to show that the narrative structure of the novel can also be seen as an embodiment of the trickster: trickster-timespace, trickster-relation, and trickster-processuality; these three manifestations of the trickster are analyzed from the perspective of one more actualization of the trickster, that of a psychopomp, the “Guide of Souls” (which is manifested both at the level of plot and narration).

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SMITH, AYANA. "Blues, criticism, and the signifying trickster." Popular Music 24, no. 2 (May 2005): 179–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143005000449.

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Scholars in the field of literary theory have defined clearly the role of signifying in African-American literature. This article identifies one aspect of the signifying tradition and its influence on the early blues tradition. Since the Signifying Monkey is the ultimate trickster in the African-American narrative tradition, this article presents evidence for considering the blues singer as a trickster figure at several different levels. First, the singer identifies with the trickster's character traits through pseudo-autobiographical content in song narratives, particularly in expressing socially aggressive or unacceptable exploits. Second, the trickster figure can be perceived as the singer's alter ego, as in songs about the boll weevil and similar folk characters. Third, the topics or tropes associated with crossroads and railways, used frequently in blues texts, relate to the liminal nature of Esu-Elegbara (the African ancestor of the Signifying Monkey), who embodies the boundary between the word and its (mis)interpretation.

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Hawley, Steve. "Trickster of Literacy." Studies in American Indian Literatures 18, no. 3 (2006): 46–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ail.2006.0033.

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Clasby, Nancy Tenfelde. "Sula the Trickster." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 6, no. 1-2 (April 1995): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436929508580145.

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Shlykova, Svetlana P. "Genesis of the Archetype of the Trickster in Russian Literature." ICONI, no. 2 (2021): 59–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33779/2658-4824.2021.2.059-074.

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The article is devoted to demonstrating the genesis of the archetype of the trickster in Russian literature. The antihero, the sources of whose anti-behavior are traced in harlequinade and skmorokh buffoonery, is examined on the material of folklore and literary works from the 18th to the early 20th century. Anti-behavior in Russian culture symbolizes a rebellion unrefl exed in the folk environment against the norms of behavior and orderliness of life imposed by those in power. The archetype of the trickster, which has longtime traditions in world culture, was personifi ed in Russia as the skomorokh, then the jester Farnos, who in many ways adopted the skomorokh traditions. Among the populace Petrukha Fornos became one of the favorite comic jester heroes, having acquired special popularity as the result of crude color woodcuts from the 18th century. In the 19th century the image of Farnos was transformed into Petrushka, a puppet character of the theatricalized genre. With his assistance the simplistic satirical subjects lay at the foundation of the so-called Petrushka theater which, despite the unaltered plot, bore an improvisational-play character, pertaining to a number of “baculine” comedies, in the 19th century the image of Petrushka was so popular, that it surpassed the oral folk tradition and found its place in literary compositions. In the early 20th century the image of Petrushka the trickster became the source for numerous interpretations in modernist literature.

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Baker, Margaret P. "The Rabbit as Trickster." Journal of Popular Culture 28, no. 2 (September 1994): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2802_149.x.

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Butler, Francelia. "The Teacher as Trickster: My Journeys into Children's Literature." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 1986, no. 1 (1986): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.1986.0014.

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De Souza, Pascale. "Trickster Strategies in Alain Mabanckou'sBlack Bazar." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 1 (March 2011): 102–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2011.42.1.102.

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den Uijl, Sebastiaan. "The Trickster “Archetype” in theShahnama." Iranian Studies 43, no. 1 (February 2010): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00210860903451220.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Trickster in literature"

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Fergusson, Stephen. "Native literature in Canada a comparative study of the coyote trickster in the literature of Thomas King and W.P. Kinsella." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0015/MQ61746.pdf.

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Rizzo, Therese M. "The Sentimental trickster in nineteenth-century American (con)texts." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 244 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654494551&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Murtha, William Gearty. "The role of trickster humor in social evolution." Thesis, The University of North Dakota, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1552210.

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Trickster humor is ubiquitous. Every society has some version of trickster and each society tells the stories of trickster over and over again to both enlighten and entertain. This thesis argues that trickster humor plays a fundamental role in helping society adapt by challenging social norms. Because trickster stories are humorous they are entertaining, because they critique social behaviors they are instructive. Tricksters break social rules, leaving society to remake them. This thesis examines the works of American Humorists Tom Robbins and Edward Abbey, particularly Still Life with Woodpecker and The Monkey Wrench Gang, arguing that these authors are contemporary trickster figures whose work not only entertains their audience but through their rule breaking offers them new possibilities in dealing with the unresolved conflicts American society is wrestling with in the last quarter of the twentieth century and beyond.

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Coleman, Arvis R. (Arvis Renette) 1961. "The West African Trickster Tradition and the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277706/.

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Analyzing Chesnutt's fiction from the angle of the West African trickster tradition explains the varying interpretations of his texts and his authorial intentions. The discussion also illustrates the influence that audience and editorial concerns may have had on African-American authors at the turn of the century.

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Fang, Hong, and 方紅. "The ethnic trickster in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster monkey: his fake book." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31244154.

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Oh, Seiwoong. "The Scholarly Trickster in Jacobean Drama: Characterology and Culture." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278216/.

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Whereas scholarly malcontents and naifs in late Renaissance drama represent the actual notion of university graduates during the time period, scholarly tricksters have an obscure social origin. Moreover, their lack of motive in participating in the plays' events, their ambivalent value structures, and their conflicting dramatic roles as tricksters, reformers, justices, and heroes pose a serious diffculty to literary critics who attempt to define them. By examining the Western dramatic tradition, this study first proposes that the scholarly tricksters have their origins in both the Vice in early Tudor plays and the witty slave in classical comedy. By incorporating historical, cultural, anthropological, and psychological studies, this essay also demonstrates that the scholarly tricksters are each a Jacobean version of the archetypal trickster, who is usually associated with solitary habits, motiveless intrusion, and a double function as selfish buffoon and cultural hero. Finally, this study shows that their ambivalent value structures reflect the nature of rhetorical training in Renaissance schools.

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Krause-Loner, Shawn Christopher. "Scar-Lip, Sky-Walker, and Mischief-Monger the norse god Loki as trickster /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1063416355.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Comparative Religion, 2003.
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Chiu, Wai-fong, and 趙慧芳. "Tradition as inheritance and departure: transformation, survival, and the trickster in Love medicine, Chinamen and Illywhacker." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47850024.

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This dissertation examines literary representations of the trickster in contemporary literature across different cultures. The introduction traces the recent development in the studies on the trickster since Radin's influential publication, The Trickster. There are two major trends in recent scholarship. First, many theorists believe that the trickster is a cross-cultural phenomenon. Second, recent scholars have started to track modern expressions of the trickster in contemporary societies. Building upon these two observations, this dissertation further explores various forms of the modern trickster, new trickster strategies and their functions in contemporary texts. This dissertation discusses the relationship between tradition and transformation expressed through modern trickster narratives. It is argued that modern trickster stories manifest the transformation of a culture through the transformative characteristics of the trickster, as well as through a text's formal transformation. Transformation signifies the possibility of change, therefore opening mainstream representations and ideologies for re-interpretation. Chapter Two offers a reading of Louise Erdrich?s Love Medicine and demonstrates how the novel transforms a Chippewa Nanabozho myth cycle into a modern Chippewa trickster story cycle. Erdrich?s Nanabozho appears as multiple modern Native Indians. This deconstructs the stereotypical image of the "vanished tribe" by showing that the Chippewa people, culture and traditions are not dead; they have transformed to survive. The formal transformation of the text also enables Chippewa oral traditions to be passed down, preserved and to survive through this contemporary fiction. Chapter Three examines and discusses how a subaltern community uses trickster strategies to resist marginalization by focusing on Maxine Hong Kingston?s China Men. Specific to China Men's use of the trickster's transformation is its manifestation of changes and struggles experienced by Chinese American immigrants. Appropriating the genre of talk-story, Kingston transforms Chinese myths into American tales, her family stories into history writing. Stories told by China Men's characters, as well as histories retold in the transformative text, are the rhetorical acts of the trickster used to challenge dominant representations and the silencing of Chinese Americans. Chapter Four analyzes Peter Carey?s Illywhacker to further test the boundary of the trickster?s realm. In this chapter, Illywhacker is conceptualized as a trickster's Australian country show in the form of a simulated exhibition showcasing emblematic Australian mythologies. The text builds upon the bush literary traditions to oppose the Australian national culture and identity constructed and mediated through the bush metaphor. The performativity of all three texts implies a repetitiveness that takes new form every time, opening the metanarratives of Australian national history and identity for revision, subversions and re-imagination.
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Fergusson, Stephen Aubrey. "Native literature in Canada : a comparative study of the coyote trickster in the literature of Thomas King and W.P. Kinsella." Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 1999.

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Booy, Simon. "'The files of Agent 22' : trickster aesthetics and the 'culture of discourse' in the writings of Ishmael Reed." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324222.

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Books on the topic "Trickster in literature"

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Britain), Folklore Society (Great, ed. The Irish trickster. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press for the Folklore Society, 1989.

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Morgan, Winifred. The Trickster Figure in American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724.

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Weyn, Suzanne. The trickster rabbit. 6th ed. New York, New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 2006.

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Bloom, Harold. Bloom's literary themes: The trickster. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010.

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Harold, Bloom. Bloom's literary themes: The trickster. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010.

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A treasury of trickster tales. Fort Atkinson, Wis: Alleyside Press, 1997.

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Norman, Howard A. Trickster and the fainting birds. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1999.

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Scheherazade's sisters: Trickster heroines and their stories in world literature. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998.

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ill, Hoffmire Baird, ed. The clever monkey: A folktale from West Africa. Atlanta: August House Story Cove, 2006.

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Grave concerns, trickster turns: The novels of Louis Owens. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Trickster in literature"

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Morgan, Winifred. "Trickster Seeking His Fortune." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 73–101. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_4.

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Morgan, Winifred. "Introduction." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 1–14. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_1.

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Morgan, Winifred. "African Americans and an Enduring Tradition." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 15–45. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_2.

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Morgan, Winifred. "Coyotes and Others Striving for Balance." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 47–72. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_3.

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Morgan, Winifred. "Heirs of the Monkey King." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 103–29. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_5.

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Morgan, Winifred. "Rough Mischief, Irreverence, and the Fantastic." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 131–65. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_6.

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Morgan, Winifred. "Conclusion." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 167–70. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_7.

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Pomerantz, Maurice A. "CHASING AFTER A TRICKSTER: THE MAQAMAT BETWEEN PHILOLOGY AND WORLD LITERATURE." In Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018, edited by Sabine Schmidtke, 228–42. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-030.

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Hamed, Hend. "The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi." In Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media, 91–104. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76055-7_6.

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Murray, Patricia. "The Trickster at the Border: Cross-Cultural Dialogues in the Caribbean." In Comparing Postcolonial Literatures, 177–92. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230599550_14.

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