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troubling tricksters revisioning critical conversations
p troubling tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays creative pieces and critical ruminations that provides a re visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it . the complaints of some indigenous writers the critique from indigenous nationalist critics and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster . for example the cambridge companion to native american literature 2005 includes only a brief mention of the trickster with skeptical commentary . and in 2007 anishinaabe scholar niigonwedom sinclair a contributor to this volume called for a moratorium on studies of the trickster irrelevant to the specific experiences and interests of indigenous nations . p one of the objectives of this anthology is then to encourage scholarship that is mindful of the critics responsibility to communities and to focus discussions on incarnations of tricksters in their particular national contexts . the contribution of troubling tricksters therefore is twofold to offer a timely counterbalance to this growing critical lacuna and to propose new approaches to trickster studies approaches that have been clearly influenced by the nationalists call for cultural and historical specificity .
paperback wilfrid laurier univ pr 2010 isbn13 9781554581818 isbn10 1554581818
book type nf isbn 13 9781554581818 number of pages 335 publisher wilfrid laurier univ pr release date 62135769600000