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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"trickster figure"”.
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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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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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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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'Like a playground should be?' Experiencing and Producing Bi Subjectivities in Bisexual Space.
… cultural discourses, can be theorised as a Trickster figure, characterised by excess and inauthenticity. BiCon, meanwhile, can be theorised as a heterotopic place-event, during which bisexuality is held constant as the default sexual identity within the space. This provides BiCon attendees …
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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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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
… the storytelling in Absalom, Absalom! or the trickster figure in the Snopes novels. I will be using Ed Piacentino’s The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor for secondary research and Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination and Rabelais and his World to provide a theoretical framework …
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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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Patriotiškumo samprata Antano Škėmos publicistikoje /
… or fragments of texts, identifies recurring figures, and identifies contradictions. The analysis uses the instruments of Greimas' semiotics. The conception of the work is related to Vytautas Kavolis's research on the history of consciousness and to Kavolis's and Greimas's articles on the …
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Liminal Butlers: Discussing a Comic Stereotype and the Progression of Class Distinctions in America
… while also becoming sources of mischief as tricksters. In early American films, these characters embody the anxiety of a classless body of men who become scapegoats, trickster-figures, and mask-wearing sages in order to survive—attracting as many functions as possible in order to help …
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Flooding as Remembering: A Trickster’s Guide to Fugitive Ecology, Revolutionary Recall, and Speculative Worldbuilding Beyond the Plantationocene
… was also reminiscent of the pan-African trickster figure: anarchistic heroes that overturn the dominant oppressive world order for more liberatory realities Today, the destruction of wetlands across Southeast Louisiana means that descendants are facing an un-worlding of the sovereign …
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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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Names, Violence, and the African American Vernacular in Richard Wright's The Outsider
An analysis of the names and violence in Richard Wright's The Outsider reveals Wright's aesthetic program for the novel. Wright's recurring themes and the meanings of the name and aliases of his protagonist are indicative of African American vernacular tradition. Despite Wright's physical distance …