TY - BOOK ID - 77910537 TI - Troubling tricksters AU - Morra, Linda M AU - Reder, Deanna PY - 2010 SN - 1554582059 1282534394 9786612534393 1554582903 9781554582907 9781554582051 1554581818 9781554581818 9781554581818 PB - Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press DB - UniCat KW - Indiens d'Amerique KW - Litterature populaire indienne d'Amerique KW - Tricksters dans la litterature. KW - Tricksters KW - Indians of North America KW - Folk literature, Indian KW - Tricksters in literature. KW - Trickster in literature KW - Indian folk literature KW - Indian literature KW - Trickster KW - Folklore KW - Magicians KW - Swindlers and swindling KW - Folk-lore, Indian KW - Moeurs et coutumes. KW - Folklore. KW - Histoire et critique. KW - Social life and customs. KW - History and criticism. KW - Customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77910537 AB - 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. One of the objectives of this anthology is, then, to encourage scholarship that is mindful of the critic?s 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. ER -