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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlexander Posey. Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions. Edited by Matthew Wynn Sivils. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.128 pp. Cloth, $21.95. Scholars have no...
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From:English in Africa (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNot surprisingly, considering that they comprise so rich a record of the language and orature of a culture that has all but disappeared, the materials that resulted from the combined efforts of Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy...
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From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay discusses some aspects of Mathias Guenther's work on the /Xam narratives that are contained in the Bleek and Lloyd collection. While his writing on the narratives themselves has been very influential in the...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNative American literature is reliant on a shared knowledge of symbolic systems that often leaves Western readers unable to easily appreciate its complexity and themes. By broadening the level of symbolic interpretation...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNew Mexico's oral tradition introduced the tricksters, from old Coyote to the picaros. Although oral narrative traditions have changed in keeping up with the times, these characters have remained part of New Mexican...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPoet Paul Muldoon has been able to successfully create poetry using multi-voiced poetic language, a dialogized language that is both troublesome and utterly dynamic. This dialogized poetic parlance favors disjunction...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 22, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTrickster Discourse and Ethnographic Authority in Crashing Thunder The value and significance of the autobiography that follows does not simply lie in the fact that it is a document absolutely unique of its kind ......
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From:Journal of American Folklore (Vol. 133, Issue 529) Peer-ReviewedThe trickster is a liminal figure who subverts and undermines existing power structures. But what happens when the trickster is appropriated by a totalitarian regime? Four North Korean collections of tales featuring Kim...
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From:Social Analysis (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRecursion and the Unconscious At the beginning of the Winnebago trickster cycle, trickster fails as a chief by repeatedly calling a war party (which chiefs never do) each time only to be found cohabiting with a woman...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the years since Chester Himes's success in the 1950s and 60s, there has been a comparative dearth of African American detective fiction. The genre was once perceived by African Americans as trivial or, given its...
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From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: One way to define the uniqueness of Mennonite literature is to identify its recurring archetypes. This article discusses ten archetypes, almost all of which have also been depicted in familiar visual...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBernard Malamud incorporates the loathly lady from Arthurian literature and Marc Chagall's vision of marital unions to offer a parody of the author's own quest for success in his short story 'The Girl of My Dreams.' As...
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From:Social Analysis (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: In this article, I explore how the cosmologies of two popular spirit possession cults--Espiritismo in Cuba and Umbanda in Brazil-exhibit forms of recursivity and self-reflexivity. Taking my cue from Don...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmong the many secrets that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has disclosed in her Epistemology of the Closet, the one which is most crucial to gender studies in the broadest sense is the agenda that lies hidden in the concept of...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMost of the commentary on Gerald Vizenor's fiction focuses upon trickster and the post-modern implications of Vizenor's texts; however, bears and their meaning within the Chippewa (1) oral tradition and religion appear...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIgbo village life is nostalgically evoked in Nkem Nwankwo's 1964 novel, Danda (1970), in which the trickster-like title character eludes the grasp of Western educational, economic, and religious forces. None of these...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 65, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS'S FOURTH NOVEL AND FIRST WORK OF HISTORICAL fiction, Nowhere Else on Earth, winner of the 2001 Southern Book Award for Fiction, continues the South's exploration of its discordant past, its legacy of...
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From:Social Analysis (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Current stand-up comedy relies on original expression, requiring the performer to develop a unique and engaging comedic viewpoint. This calls for the comedian to be able to shift between different, often...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract A comparison of recordings of Bob Dylan's "All along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix offers a vivid case study of what Samuel Floyd characterizes as "the complementary oppositions of African-...
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From:Hispanofila (Issue 188) Peer-ReviewedLa figura del trickster (el burlador o el tramposo) ha constituido una de las formas mas universales y determinantes en la dimension estetica de la risa. (1) Practicamente todas las culturas que han existido...