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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Trickster"”.
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Trickster and Weetigo : Tomson Highway's Fur Queen
… Through the Fur Queen, Weesageechak, the trickster, acts as a positive figure overseeing the success of her Aboriginal charges, while the cannibal Weetigo aspects of the Fur Queen represent the negative impacts and dangers faced by her charges within and from the colonizing Euro-Canadian …
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Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure
… Chandler Harris, Chesnutt looks backward to the trickster figure of African lore and applies its tactics to his narrator, Julius McAdoo, to deliver a comical yet austere discussion of the ills of slavery. In <em>The Conjure Woman</em>, Chesnutt addresses the issues of forced separation of …
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Virgil Ortiz: American Indian Artist, Representational Trickster, and Identity Shapeshifter
<p>This study opens the door for a re-thinking of how discourse shapes American Indian representation and identity. As such, contemporary American Indian artist, Virgil Ortiz, his art, and the discourse surrounding both art and artist are examined to reveal the strategies and tactics employed in …
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The Post-Colonial Christ Paradox: Literary Transfigurations of a Trickster God
… with paradoxes associated with pre-colonial trickster figures or trickster spirituality. In imagining the Christ as a paradoxical, post-colonial trickster, my core texts address ambiguities and anxieties attending post-colonial pursuits of empowerment. The mixture of Christological and …
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Trickster at play: an inquiry into transgression in a colonised world
… it a unique sense of power and agency. I explore trickster as an embodied and performative form of transgression, and locate it within the larger body of practices and explore her influence in shifting discourse. I describe a complex practice that employs these methods and others to challenge the …
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Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition
… for literary analysis called the literary trickster figure. Over the last few centuries, the trickster figure has been reduced from a cultural hero to a dubious character. If we trace the trickster’s western roots back to Hermes, Mercury, and Loki and take global trickster scholarship into …
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
… their characters. One popular archetype is the trickster figure. Most frequently connected to Native American tales in contemporary literature, the archetype can be found in the mythology and folk tales of nearly every time and culture. Trickster heroines can be found throughout fairy tales and …
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Political fanaticism, alienation and the Trickster archetype in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland
… of reasoning, the thesis further argues that the Trickster manifests in these films as a figure of remediation, which brings forth the importance of individuation as a means to rediscover the numinous through a dialogical relationship with the unconscious.
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Le décepter dans la littérature orale de l'océan Indien : étude comparée
This thesis examines the figure of the Trickster In the traditional literature of the Indian Ocean islands of the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion. Originating from a unique blend of cultures, the popular literature of these islands lend itself to a comparative study with other folklore. The first …
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Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature
… studied in this thesis are rites of passage, Trickster, and Hero. A hybrid character that embodies traits of both Trickster and Hero appears in contemporary Afro-Caribbean literature, suggesting that an African-inspired cultural hero is needed to transcend neocolonial boundaries. …
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Walking Toronto's Red Road: The Story Pathways of Indigenous Social Workers
… ‘As this is really all about me, anyways,’ Trickster says, fluttering his eyelashes, resting one hand on his chest. ‘I mean, sure, I suppose we are traveling the story pathways of Indigenous social workers in Toronto,’ he muses, lifting his hand to his chin. ‘But social work in North America …
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The tabloid Trickster: a post-Jungian evaluation of early 21st century popular British newspaper journalism characterised by that of The Sun
… archetypally by what Carl Jung identified as Trickster, a collective shadow reflecting an ambiguous but necessary principle portrayed in myths, folklore, literature and contemporary media as a disruptive, lascivious, liminoid troublemaker. This thesis investigates and amplifies earlier …
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Artists as Tricksters: Resourceful Artists of the German Renaissance
… subverted social norms. This character of the trickster—as this dissertation reveals—was also a major identity deliberately cultivated by many German and Swiss artists of the early sixteenth century, who invented pictorial tricks or parodied traditional iconography to contrive scandals and …
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The Irish revolutionary period as a rite of passage: things hidden since the foundation of the state
… corresponds to the anthropological figure of Trickster. This is represented vividly in the exemplary figure of deValera, a style which, institutionalised, recurs problematically in the subsequent Fianna Fáil leaderships of Charles J. Haughey and Bertie Ahern during the recent liminal period of …
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La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit
… The speaker embodies several versions of the trickster figure: linguistic tricksterism, cultural tricksterism, gender tricksterism, and religious tricksterism. She navigates linguistic tricksterism through the code switching of English and Spanish, using Spanglish as her main dialect, and …
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Collected Snow Globes
… narrators feature named voices such as a Coyote trickster figure, the Historian, the Archeologist, the Lost Brother, and a host of other lesser figures moving about the globe and time. Investigations by the narrators include visiting art museums, authors across the Modernist and post-modern …
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Trickster's Taxonomy
… of fluid semiotics by employing notions of the trickster as narrator in several poem, disrupting binaries and complicating the nature of meaning. Also utilized toward this end are formal variations, homophones and various sets of jargon</p>
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