Though trickster figures have appeared in U.S. literature with
increasing frequency since the Civil Rights era, literary critics
have not yet adequately revealed the sociopolitical implications of
these texts. This study analyzes the use of mythic/folkloric
trickster figures and discourse in works by four influential U.S.
authors, Gerald Vizenor, Paule Marshall, Maxine Hong Kingston, and
Leslie Marmon Silko. An anthropological approach reveals that these
authors' mediational trickster texts offer readers narrative
opportunities to reject delimiting monocultural conceptualizations
of U.S. history and thought in order to acknowledge and engage what
has always been a heterogeneous New World.
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